Re: adminning mult boxen
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 09:42:17PM +0800, Calvin Chong wrote:
| > Perhaps you can take the hard drives out of most of the boxes and
| > stick them in a single high-powered box. Then make that high-powered
| > box the server and the rest as diskless X terminals. This way the
| > terminals have no config on them to deal with, it is all unified on
| > the server.
|
| I suggest a ramdisk on all those client (i.e. ramdisk cached /home/user
| and non-ramdisk /home/user/storage/) for all those thin-clients. this
| is to solve the 'customization problem'.
What is the 'customization problem'? /home should be mounted rw
anyways. All terminals would be using the same /home directory so it
wouldn't matter which terminal you logged into.
-D
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