[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Offhand, this seems like a bad idea. Virtually all programs in a > running Linux system are demand-paged from disk. Imagine for a moment > what would happen if the fileserver on which init lived went away, > thereby preventing init from being paged in.
The same for any diskless client. AFS brings the advantage that stuff is cached at the local drive - better performance and less network load - and that you could replicate almost everything (except for a tiny volume for /etc). I'm not quite sure how replication, caching, and local open files go together, but I think the impact of one server going should be fairly minimal. > I used to support installing RedHat systems via AFS, but had to stop > doing that with RH7.1 when AFS stopped working in the initrd > environment. A pity. Thanks for the info, anyway. -- Cees de Groot http://www.cdegroot.com <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG 1024D/E0989E8B 0016 F679 F38D 5946 4ECD 1986 F303 937F E098 9E8B
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