Greetings, On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 7:40 AM, Davide Natalini <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Il giorno 06/dic/12, alle ore 08:13, Daniel Baumann ha scritto: > > > On 12/05/2012 11:02 PM, Davide Natalini wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >> >> hi, >> >> please do not hijack threads, start a new one by writing a new mail, not >> by replying to an existing one. >> > > I'm sorry, I didn't realize I was doing that. > > > >> Any comments, ideas, suggestions or other about this is much appreciated >>> >> >> i'd probably use one read-only persistency over nfs for all clients (will >> need some patches to make it work) in such a scenario, and update the >> persistency on the nfs server whenever required. >> > > I'm not willing to have a server for this, for a number of reasons: > * I would be forced to work only on the server, and probably only when all > the clients are down > * a server would become crucial for the work of too many people > * a system with a single server does not scale up well: if the number of > clients grows, the overall performance goes down, and/or its cost grows up > * the clients are in use in a school: at the beginning of a lesson all the > clients will have simultaneous requests to the server > * every single client is powerful enough to run a standalone system with a > good performance > > > I think a system like the one I'm proposing would be very interesting for > all the applications with many identical systems, like schools. > > Does anyone have had good/bad experiences in a similar context? > > I have had excellent success with netboot images with redundant proximity boot servers. However, when netboot is not a choice for say notebooks, I do what I call a firmware install as plainroot and with persistence. And that as well has been successful, but what I am waiting for is what I call live-media install. The live-media install will install the squashfs to be booted from local hard drive . Here is a thread that mentions it http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2011/09/msg00197.html . I believe the live-media install type will allow for concise deployments of a given squashfs image to groups of machines as you describe. > > Thank you, > > Davide Natalini > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > debian-live-request@lists.**debian.org<[email protected]> > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/**7C8A0FE7-4355-4BA4-B7F7-** > [email protected]<http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]> > >
