DRBL and Technology

[Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)]

hi Todd

On 10-11-23 10:35 PM, Todd O'Bryan wrote:
> I create a fat-client chroot that has a bunch of stuff in it. In
> particular, in my lab I teach programming, so I've got a few
> programming languages installed, Google Chrome, etc. Then I run
> ltsp-update-kernels, ltsp-update-image, and ltsp-update-sshkeys, just
> to make sure everything got updated.
> 
> Now, does the fat-client download *everything* in the chroot into RAM,
> or does it mount the chroot remotely and only download what it needs
> to boot, loading the other stuff from (the server's) disk as it needs
> it? I guess what I'm asking is, is the part that the client gets over
> the network to boot considerably more for a fat-client than a
> thin-client, or is it about the same, with the fat-client then
> mounting the files it needs on the server?

To boot up it uses about just the same resources as a normal thin
client. It only reads the data as it's required, just like it would when
reading from a local hard disk.

-Jonathan