Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 14:52:33 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> Cc: FreeBSD-chat <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Diskless Workstations Message-ID: <19981130145233.H9226@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <199811290843.AAA00385@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 12:43:40AM -0800 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811182318020.4361-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> <199811290843.AAA00385@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 12:43:40AM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > The only disadvantage that I can see is that the organization depends > > utterly on the network and the fileserver. I think that any organization > > that depends heavily on networking is stuck with this anyway. > > Indeed. You can address some of the performance issues with dataless, > rather than diskless, workstations (local OS copy, local config > replicated on a regular basis from a master server, apps and user data > mounted via NFS). With Coda coming up, it should be possible to do this configuration more easily, using a local disk as a filesystem-managed cache. One of the great advantages of Coda. (It will especially be an advantage if you can turn off the disconnected operation support in Coda; I suspect you can.) Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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