Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 02:15:48 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org> To: Ken Hansen <khansen@njcc.com> Cc: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>, Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>, freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: diskless 100 Mbit - IntelEtherexpress - Q Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970927021218.1681A-100000@counterintelligence.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <342BE6B3.27A5@njcc.com>
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Here is my two cents --- when you have users that decide to suddenly cycle the power anything with moving parts is in danger. I prefer the solution of 100 base T cards and running of boot eprom w large amounts of memory on the workstations (64MB - 128MB) this certainly has to be better than any harddrive as it is pretty hard to destroy and I can swap out a machine simply by moving in anothet cpu cabinet, and changing the MAC address in the bootptab it is seamless. > > BTW I believe Sun has droped support for true diskless workstations, > in stead they have CacheFS clients, where the machine boots off the > server, but keeps a cache of NFS files accessed on a local HD - that > drive is cleared on reboot. > > Just wnated to throw in my .02 worth. > > Ken > khansen@njcc.com >
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