From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Nov 30 12:06:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA08059 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 12:06:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason02.u.washington.edu (jason02.u.washington.edu [140.142.76.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA08052 for ; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 12:06:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul10.u.washington.edu (root@saul10.u.washington.edu [140.142.13.73]) by jason02.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id MAA19544; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 12:06:35 -0800 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul10.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id MAA12918; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 12:06:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 12:06:08 -0800 (PST) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: Mike Smith cc: FreeBSD-chat Subject: Re: Diskless Workstations In-Reply-To: <199811290843.AAA00385@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 29 Nov 1998, Mike Smith wrote: >> Jason Wrote: >> Sometime ago I asked folks about NC's. Now I am back. Once again I am >> armed with just enough info to be dangerous. > >Flee! :) >> It seems that running diskless has a serious advantage of using the same >> disk space for all of the programs that all the users need. 100baseT can >> compete with UW-SCSI bit for bit on bandwidth. > >No it can't. And NFS doesn't compete for latency. But many users >don't need that sort of filesystem throughput. If 100 Mbps => 80 Mbps then 100bT is as good or better than UW-SCSI on bandwidth. This is what I based my statement on. It appears that I have a concept error somehow. The numbers look right to me. Can someone steer me straight? Thanks for the insight from all who replied. I sent that email some time ago. Is the list only now receiving it? Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message