> > The short answer is that lessdisks demands a bit more memory than LTSP, > > because LTSP uses swap over NFS. > > If you want swap over NFS then make a Debian kernel package with support > for swap over NFS. It is not provided officially in Debian because it is > considered too rarely needed for the maintainance burden of an extra > kernel with the unofficial patch applied. that is a considerable amount of extra work, though. i used to maintain a kernel for lessdisks and dreaded a new kernel release because of the extra work that meant (i mostly just didn't update it often enough). so i can understand the appeal of just grabbing a kernel from some other source. someone could probably build a debian package from the binary LTSP kernels that would work with lessdisks- obviously you couldn't build it from source that way, but it would reduce some of the workload. > So if you consider it a plus that LTSP has a custom-patched kernel then > I recommend you to use a kernel deriving as little as possible from the > official Debian ones, and rebuildable with same routines as the Debian > kernels, instead of relying on an alien distribution for some of the > Linux kernels in your network. > > I've tried to set up swap over NBD on > > lessdisks (0.6.2c i think), and it was not working for more than 1 or 2 > > clients. There was a message that this might have been fixed the other > > day, but I've been to busy handling some flamewars to check it out :) this would be good to find out... > ...and that off course will be even better when it works, because then > we need only the NBD module unofficially compiled, not a complete kernel. actually, NBD is part of the standard debian kernel already :) there are other NBD derivatives that are not in the standard debian kernel... > But the old-fashioned approach of LTSP is possible with Lessdisks as > well, if that is what you want. And much easier to maintain. definitely. live well, vagrant
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