Re: Diskless workstations

[Chuck Wolber <chuckw quantumlinux com>]

> No we do everything via NFS at the moment. Using a big ramdisk would cut
> into why all the machines have so much memory and CPU's. Basically the
> idea is that all CPU cycles are local and all data is foreign. The
> approach to this seems to follow either SGI or Sun ways of doing
> diskless clients. I like the Sun way of doing it (with each client
> getting its own tree) versus the SGI where most is common with the
> server and clients need a rebuild if server code changes.

Can a user move to another workstation and resume their session? I've seen 
this done with RFID tags that automatically detach your session if you 
move away from the terminal and re-attach you when you move closer.

-Chuck

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