From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 22 09:05:53 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D289C16A4CE for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:05:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.solid-state-logic.com (mail.solid-state-logic.com [193.117.244.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12FAA43D48 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:05:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from martinh@solid-state-logic.com) Received: from sol.solid-state-logic.com ([10.1.1.101] helo=solid-state-logic.com) by soloman.solid-state-logic.com with smtp (Exim 4.43 (FreeBSD)) id 1CWA8p-000Fde-A1; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:05:47 +0000 Received: from [10.1.4.197] (martinh.solid-state-logic.com) by solid-state-logic.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA15081; Mon, 22 Nov 04 09:05:47 GMT Message-Id: <41A1ABEA.1020500@solid-state-logic.com> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:05:46 +0000 From: Martin Hepworth User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Evan Sayer References: <6E5CDC16-3BE5-11D9-8AB7-000A95CCF8C4@san.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <6E5CDC16-3BE5-11D9-8AB7-000A95CCF8C4@san.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Solid-State-Logic-MailScanner-Information: Please contact Solid State Logic Ltd for more information X-Solid-State-Logic-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: martinh@solid-state-logic.com cc: freebsd-questions@freeBSD.org Subject: Re: Diskless Servers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:05:53 -0000 Evan depends is you like a single point of failure for all your systems....if you loose the nfs/tftp server you're toast!!! -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Evan Sayer wrote: > Hello- > Is it a good idea to run a mail server or web server diskless? The > reason I want to do this is so that all of our server's files will be in > one place which will make backups more convenient. Basically I am > thinking of running one NFS/TFTP file server with disks, and those disks > will contain the partitions for a web server, a mail server, and a login > server which will all boot diskless. Is this safe and ok performance > wise? Thanks. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses and is believed to be clean. **********************************************************************