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On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Jack Coats <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>
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