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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.0 Developer Preview #1 Now Available / diskless booting
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Robert Watson wrote:
> I have't really used the diskless environment with 4.x, but use it
> extensively in my test/development environments for 5.0.  Stateless
> workstations are great when it comes to file system debugging, especially
> since newfs is orders of magnitude faster than fsck :-).

THat is what I primarily use them for, as well.

-- Terry

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