From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Nov 30 05:52:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA28286 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 05:52:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA28269 for ; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 05:52:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA03803; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 14:52:35 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id OAA12117; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 14:52:34 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19981130145233.H9226@follo.net> Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 14:52:33 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund To: Mike Smith , "Jason C. Wells" Cc: FreeBSD-chat Subject: Re: Diskless Workstations References: <199811290843.AAA00385@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199811290843.AAA00385@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 12:43:40AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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