On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, Eric Thibodeau wrote:

the NFS root approach only does changes on the head node and changed files don't need to be propagated and are accessed on a as-needed basis, this might have significant impacts on large deployments

NFS-root doesn't scale too well, the implementation of NFS in Linux is quite chatty.

I'll take your word for it that they have a version tracking mechanism.

Take my word that if you're going into larger installations with the least amount of non-homogeneity you'll want to at least read about, if not use, such mechanisms :-)

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