Second try: Clarification of statement about stateless sytem]

[Les Mikesell]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> I tried once and got no response so I am trying again. It is strange
> that people understand all such obscure things but can't explain one of
> the many gobbledygook statements made in the release notes.
> 
> In section 2.2.6 of the F10 release notes is the following statement:
> 
> Support for keeping a persistent /home with the rest of the system
> stateless has been added for Fedora 10.
> 
> I don't understand that statement? Could someone explain it, especially
> the meaning of the words persistent and stateless in that context.

Since nobody else is answering, I'll take a guess...  Stateless should 
mean that the OS could be installed/updated on the fly during bootup, 
whether done as a PXE boot into RAM or copied/cached on the local hard 
disk. There once was a 'stateless' linux project but I'm not sure if 
this is a specific reference or if anyone is still working on that. 
Anyway, the idea is that you can have a group of client computers with 
no maintenance or installation for the OS but the /home directories are 
saved across reboots, either on a local drive or nfs-mounted from a server.

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   Les Mikesell
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