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Re: Maintaining multiple Debian boxes



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Arrigo Triulzi <a.triulzi@ic.ac.uk> writes:

> Speed - this would be a killer, local disks are at 2-4 Mb/s with fast
> EIDE, the net just can't keep up with this. Propagation of local
> binaries is done via rdist, as long as they are placed in /usr/local.
> Of course this means having rules for programs which require
> machine-specific configuration using the "special", for example Condor
> (batch processing), etc.

Ick. :) Yes, that would be slow on a slow net. I've heard wonderful
things about a Linux distribution out there that will cache NFS files
on a local hard drive, but I forget which it is. There must be some
way to to it and save bandwidth...

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