From: Niall O Broin (niall at domain linux.ie)
Date: Fri 01 Jun 2001 - 19:41:56 IST
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 05:47:16PM +0100, Niall Brady wrote:
> > OTOH if you have a bunch of Unix machines all trying to bootstrap the OS,
> > mount everything on NFS filesystems, complete the entire boot process from
> > those NFS filesystems, and have swap on an NFS filesystem too, performance
> > may suffer :-)
>
> The other way of having it is just setting up diskless xterms...
> that's what we do here... kernel downloaded over the network, all
> the filesystems mounted over NFS, then a chooser menu to allow you
> to query the host you want to run your X session on... works fine!
Are these "real" xterms or Linux boxes just being used as xterms ? If
they're real xterms then there's only a kernel to be downloaded, as xterms
themselves do not mount filesystems, nor does their boot process involve
running god only knows how many binaries, so there isn't that big a network
load. Of course, the change from 10Mb to 100MB networking helps too - that
would have made the worst case in the Maynooth example be 3 minutes, which
wouldn't have been too bad, and of course it gets even better if you've got
a switch with 100Mb ports for clients and some 1Gb ports for servers. Of
course, the scenario I spoke about was a bit before 100MB networking or
switched Ethernets were available.
Regards,
Niall
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