Diskless & Thin Systems

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 07:30:31PM +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote:
> Hi Matt
> 
> On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 10:10 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 06:33:44PM +0100, Martin Kreiner wrote:
> > > the right approach for a "out-of-the-box" diskless client would be a ro shared
> > > nfs and unionfs.
> > 
> > It is conceptually tempting; however, our experiments showed that unionfs
> > over NFS was an unstable configuration.  That's why our thin client
> > implementation doesn't use it, though the code is still there and can be
> > switched on via the configuration file.
> 
> Sorry for replying so late after the thread, I'm behind on -devel. What
> was the major issues with this? Is it listed in Launchpad or the wiki?
> I'm interested in doing this as well, for a diskless fat client set-up.
> I'm using the ubuntu LTSP chroot instead of doing it for scratch, since
> I think it could be an Edubuntu installation option in the future as
> well.

Searching Malone for unionfs bugs should turn up the relevant background.
You can also switch it on for your clients and see what happens.

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 - mdz