Quota / Diskless Workstation?

[David Frascone]

On 8/17/07, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> David Frascone wrote:
> > Ok -- this is not really distribution specific, but I figure you guys
> may
> > know the answer :)
> >
> > I have a couple of diskless machines that I boot off of one
> server.  Today,
> > one of them mis-behaved, and dropped a huge log file, filling my
> server's
> > disk.
> >
> > I want to prevent this in the future.  So, I'm looking for suggestions.
> >
> > I immediately thought of quotas, but, since the filesystems aren't owned
> by
> > one user (they're full unix filesystems), that wouldn't work well.
> >
> > I'm now trying to decide if it would be best to create a filesystem in a
> > file, mount that, and share that over NFS for the root.
> >
> > i.e.:
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/tftpboot/disk1.img count=whatever bs=whatever
> > mkfs -t ext3 /tftpboot/disk1.img
> > mount -o loop /tftpboot/disk1.img /tftpboot/disk1.mnt
> > cp -a /tftpboot/oldDiskRoot/* /tftpboot/disk1.mnt
> >
> > then share /tftpboot/disk1.mnt, instead of /tftpboot/OlddiskRoot
> >
> >
> >
> > Any other suggestions?
>
> If the server can handle it, boot the diskless machines as thin
> terminals with the ltsp package and run the desktop on the server.


They're MythTV frontends -- the server won't be able to handle it :)

-Dave




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David Frascone

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