Rainer Orth wrote: > Darren J Moffat <Darren.Moffat at Sun.COM> writes: > >> There is some sunkworks stuff going on in Sun UK for some Sun internal >> projects to make thousands of diskless clients based on ZFS clones and >> snapshots. > > Could you share more details about this? It already occured to me that ZFS > has great potential for simplifying diskless installation and patching, and > I'm still a strong proponent of diskless clients (and AutoClients before > that), arguing they suffer much more from implementation problems than > fundamental issues. Unfortunately, with the relevant parts of the install > consolidation still closed, there's not much an outsider can do about this.
At this time I can't because the person doing it isn't in the office for a couple of weeks - off traveling around Europe on a motor bike. When he gets back I'll find out more from him on the actual details and see what I can post. The one thing I know for sure is that smdiskless is not being used for configuration of the clients, it might be getting used to create the inital golden image but that would be it. -- Darren J Moffat
