Diskless workstations

[Stephen Smoogen]

On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 11:12, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> Stephen Smoogen wrote:
> 
> >Is it is simple to rename .snapshot to soemthing else. The NFS server is
> >a netapp :)
> >
> Not really sure what you are asking.  /.snapshot is a directory on the 
> client that mounts a client specific directory on the server.  The 
> server directories could be on a netapp server, but you would then have 
> the problem of upgrading over NFS.  One other solution would be to have 
> a Diskfull machine that you could upgrade and the rsync to the netapp 
> server.
> 

The main reasons were to try and do as much over NFSv3 with TCP as
possible. We have found that the clients (400+ workstations) perform
much better when we put as much on a netapp as possible and mount things
as v3-tcp when possible. 

Sorry for not saying that earlier.


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