Diskless & Thin Systems

[Martin Kreiner]

Jason Straight schrieb:
> On Monday 20 March 2006 05:48, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> 
>>have you had a look at the ubuntu ltsp-server and ltsp-server-standalone
>>packages we ship since breezy ? they set up a ltsp thin client
>>environment automatically for you within less than an hour...
>>
>>see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ThinClientHowto
> 
> 
> Yeah, but I was just doing diskless, not xdcmp. They had 25 brand new PC's all 
> with the same hardware, so there was plenty of processing power at each 
> station to use rather than having them all share the resources of the main 
> server for running apps, especially since openoffice and flash player will be 
> in heavy use. One RAM hungry and the other one processor hungry.
> 
> I added https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DisklessUbuntuHowto myself the other day.
> 
are you sure that you want a rw shared nfsroot?!

/etc/exports:

/nfsroot             clientiporhostname(rw,no_root_squash,async)

i say this is a bad idea...
the right approach for a "out-of-the-box" diskless client would be a ro shared
nfs and unionfs.
further on a unionfs flag would be usefull for "standard" installations as
well, e.g.:
a user would be able to try some new software/settings without making any
permanent changes on his system.

martin