Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 23:28:40 -0800 (PST) From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> To: FreeBSD-chat <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Diskless Workstations Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811182318020.4361-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
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Sometime ago I asked folks about NC's. Now I am back. Once again I am armed with just enough info to be dangerous. Would you recommend using diskless workstations? Would you rather be shot? I have read what the vendor's have to say but I would like to hear your advice. 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. If wcarchive can push 747GB I can't see networking as being a bottle neck even with a large number of workstations. Administration is centralized, security is centralized, backup is centralized. (Do I sound like ncworldmag yet?) 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. Any input is appreciated. 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
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