On 9/8/07, Richard Elling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Changing the topic slightly, the strategic question is: > why are you providing disk space to students?
For most programming and productivity (e.g. word processing, etc.) people will likely be better suited by having network access for their personal equipment with local storage. For cases when specialized expensive tools ($10k + per seat) are used, it is not practical to install them on hundreds or thousands of personal devices for a semester or two of work. The typical computing lab that provides such tools is not well equipped to deal with removable media such as flash drives. Further, such tools will often times be used to do designs that require simulations to run as batch jobs that run under grid computing tools such as Grid Engine, Condor, LSF, etc. Then, of course, there are files that need to be shared, have reliable backups, etc. Pushing that out to desktop or laptop machines is not really a good idea. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
