Once upon a time SUN had a way to 'net boot' machines, typically desktops. Then it used the local disk for swap and cache of data and programs only. It used LMRU algorithm's to figure out what to dump out of cache when it got full. I was impressed if you put in a non-formatted disk it would partition and format it on the fly as needed.
The good thing was that when files were updated/changed/written locally, they would be written back to the server (home directory mostly). If a local disk died, just replace it, reboot the machine then it would run slowly (building the cache, just like when the machine is 'new') but it would run and did apparently speed up as more was put into cache. My question is, is there such a thing available on Linux? I have heard of kiosk machines that did everything over the 'net, but this with local cache had some of the best of both worlds. ><> ... Jack http://appsumo.com/~uvlm <-- Enter to win 50G Dropbox for life -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
