On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 03:47:04PM -0600, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >What's wrong with NFS? You can even have root on NFS these days > >A quick google found: > > http://www.digitalpeer.com/id/linuxnfs > > Nothing actually, just no experience with it. What is the performance like of NFS? > Given good hardware, does this make for a production quality setup? NFS is the traditional diskless workstation method, as used by Sun for the past 2 or 3 decades. The efficacy of it is very dependent on what you're doing. Web browsing, reading email, running the odd program; people won't notice. High I/O intensive applications... not suited for diskless in the first place! The key is mostly sufficient memory so that the machine doesn't swap and can keep commonly accessed programs in I/O cache. -- rgds Stephen