Diskless workstations
Stephen Smoogen
smoogen at lanl.gov
Thu Jul 24 18:09:30 UTC 2003
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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