Something just occured to me on this this... Suppose I have an old Amd 486DX2/40, could this oldie be setup so that it boots a minimal (blocky) GUI over NFS to be able to run xmms or something like that? Has anybody tried (something similar like) this? -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stephen Harris Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 4:05 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: Booting Diskless Workstations On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 03:47:04PM -0600, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >What's wrong with NFS? You can even have root on NFS these days > >A quick google found: > > http://www.digitalpeer.com/id/linuxnfs > > Nothing actually, just no experience with it. What is the performance like of NFS? > Given good hardware, does this make for a production quality setup? NFS is the traditional diskless workstation method, as used by Sun for the past 2 or 3 decades. The efficacy of it is very dependent on what you're doing. Web browsing, reading email, running the odd program; people won't notice. High I/O intensive applications... not suited for diskless in the first place! The key is mostly sufficient memory so that the machine doesn't swap and can keep commonly accessed programs in I/O cache. -- rgds Stephen _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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