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Subject: Re: [CentOS] Booting Diskless Workstations
On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 03:47:04PM -0600, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
What's wrong with NFS? You can even have root on NFS
Sorin Srbu wrote:
Something just occured to me on this this...
Suppose I have an old Amd 486DX2/40, could this oldie be setup so that it
boots a minimal (blocky) GUI over NFS to be able to run xmms or something like
that? Has anybody tried (something similar like) this?
how much ram?I
John R Pierce scribbled on Tuesday, June 03, 2008 9:40 AM:
Sorin Srbu wrote:
Something just occured to me on this this...
Suppose I have an old Amd 486DX2/40, could this oldie be setup so that it
boots a minimal (blocky) GUI over NFS to be able to run xmms or something
like that? Has
1. Should I just do iSCSI backed diskless setups? Probably doesn't scale well.
What's wrong with NFS? You can even have root on NFS these days
A quick google found:
http://www.digitalpeer.com/id/linuxnfs
My first thought:
Install a workstation as normal, then tar/untar them onto the NFS
What's wrong with NFS? You can even have root on NFS these days
A quick google found:
http://www.digitalpeer.com/id/linuxnfs
Nothing actually, just no experience with it. What is the performance like of
NFS?
Given good hardware, does this make for a production quality setup?
Thanks!
jlc
On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 03:47:04PM -0600, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
What's wrong with NFS? You can even have root on NFS these days
A quick google found:
http://www.digitalpeer.com/id/linuxnfs
Nothing actually, just no experience with it. What is the performance like of
NFS?
Given good
The key is mostly sufficient memory so
that the machine doesn't swap and can keep commonly accessed programs
in I/O cache.
If the clients had lots of ram (=2Gb), can I disable the swap file altogether?
Thanks!
jlc
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On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 08:17:20PM -0600, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
The key is mostly sufficient memory so
that the machine doesn't swap and can keep commonly accessed programs
in I/O cache.
If the clients had lots of ram (=2Gb), can I disable the swap file
altogether?
Yup! (That's also
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