Re: shared NFS systems (fwd)
Nicolas omitted to send this to the list too, so here it is.
Cheers,
Kenny.
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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 20:15:23 -0700
From: Nicolas Lopez <nick@corbettschool.org>
To: Kenneth MacDonald <kenny@holyrood.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: shared NFS systems
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 03:03:41PM +0000, Kenneth MacDonald wrote:
> >>>>> "Nicolas" == Nicolas Lopez <nick@corbettschool.org> writes:
>
> Nicolas> On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 02:13:07PM +1100, Brian May
> Nicolas> wrote:
> Nicolas> Some of them allready are, with unexpected advantages.
> Nicolas> Like sharing the high score files for games. That's, of
> Nicolas> course, on top of the passwd file sharing(no NIS, etc)
> Nicolas> and the fact you can dist-upgrade one, and all the
> Nicolas> systems are intantainiously up to date.
>
> Doesn't this have implications in that services will only be
> restarted/reloaded/etc on the server that has dpkg running on it.
> This could be dangerous, couldn't it?
Not really. It's just a workstation. If it breaks something, hit the reset
button. In a moniute your booted back up. No problem.
Upgrades allways need special attention. So do special setups. In this
case both overlap. So you have to be aware of what you're doing. You
probably shouldn't upgrade libc while the systems are in active use, just to
be safe.
- Nick Lopez
kimo_sabe@atdot.org
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