Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 03, 2004 06:19 AM
I remember working on a system that used a cacheing version of NFS in a Netboot environment (on Solaris, late 90's). For enterprise this kind of setup is amazing!
Netboot means no state on the client machines, the things that the users sit in front of (apart from the cache in this case, but effectively none). There's no need to administer them at all. They can be swapped out when broken and users can roam and log in to any one of them.
The cacheing file system meant that the huge CAD application didn't have to shunt across the network every time it was used. In fact, only updates were shunted when the application was upgraded on the central server. That was the only time there was a network rush, when users logged in and started running the new version.
CODA seemed to promise that kind of setup and more on Linux, but I expect so many of us are stuck with old habits like SMB and NFS. Microsoft don't make it easy to plug in file systems to Windows making competition with SMB where Windows clients are involved difficult.
I'd pretty well forgotten about CODA. I'll have to give it another try on my home network.
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Cacheing NFS in a netboot environment
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 03, 2004 06:19 AMNetboot means no state on the client machines, the things that the users sit in front of (apart from the cache in this case, but effectively none). There's no need to administer them at all. They can be swapped out when broken and users can roam and log in to any one of them.
The cacheing file system meant that the huge CAD application didn't have to shunt across the network every time it was used. In fact, only updates were shunted when the application was upgraded on the central server. That was the only time there was a network rush, when users logged in and started running the new version.
CODA seemed to promise that kind of setup and more on Linux, but I expect so many of us are stuck with old habits like SMB and NFS. Microsoft don't make it easy to plug in file systems to Windows making competition with SMB where Windows clients are involved difficult.
I'd pretty well forgotten about CODA. I'll have to give it another try on my home network.
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