On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Alkis Georgopoulos <alk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thoughts? This is the first I've heard of this, so please excuse my ignorance. Is this going to be the single method going forward or will do you plan to preserve the old way for some foreseeable future? I admin a network of 80 or so thin clients that all use LTSP to boot and run RDP, so here are my concerns with the new system you're describing. 1. Having to reboot with each update of the image. As you know, rebooting the server kills the rootfs on the NBD client, so things stop working when you reboot the server. Usually RDP continues working, but the biggest loss for us in this situation is that the thin clients will fail to shut down automatically (which they should daily), and we can't ssh into them, so a walkabout to power-cycle them is the only way to get them back. On the upshot, if it's a planned reboot then we can proactively shutdown or reboot the clients before rebuilding the image, but even so this takes away our ability to update the image during regular working hours. 2. Installing all packages on the server. Considering we're only doing RDP, I'm not sure how much of a burden this will be, but our LTSP server is currently rather minimal and runs in a virtual machine. If this change will require a full desktop on the server then my RAM requirements are going up significantly. My second concern is comparatively minor. I would really hate to have to reboot with every image update though, as things tend to happen here in a day at work, and it sure is nice to be able to tweak something on the fly and not have to bring everybody down. db ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
