Debian-Ubuntu weakness to filesystem corruption recovery

[Joel Bryan T. Juliano]

On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 08:13 +1000, Jamie Jones wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 14:20 +0200, chantra wrote:
> > Hi,
> > > You don't consider desktops "production" machines ??? I'd do 1 of 3
> > > things myself.
> > >
> > > 1) Desktops are thin clients.
> > >   
> > I don't really understand what you mean by that.
> 
> Literally, make the desktops into thin clients using the ltsp packages
> we have. The desktops then have nothing local to backup, (and you can
> remove hard disks, or use slower quieter systems). It would leave you
> with a single server to backup instead, but that's still a smaller
> backup then several desktops.
> 
> Has the nice advantage that desktops become "disposable" if one breaks
> or is stolen, you don't need to hunt for backups or reload system
> images, just plug a new computer in and turn it on, and you are back in
> production.
> 
> Regards,

LTSP is really exciting! :-)

-- 
Joel Bryan T. Juliano <joelbryan.juliano at gmail.com>
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