Στις 02-01-2012, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 10:52 -0500, ο/η Todd O'Bryan έγραψε: > In other words, can I just start with the bare minimum image and then > install all the other programs I want somewhere and mount that from > the server?
Why? What are you trying to gain? The fat client image isn't loaded in the client RAM. Similarly to USB disks, the client only reads the sectors it needs each time. So you can have e.g. 5 Gb fat images without any problem at all. Now if you put those 5 Gb to the server file system instead, because of lack of compression (NBD can be compressed, see the wiki), the same folders would need about 12.5 Gb, and that would make the fat client disk access about 2.5 times slower because of the lack of compression, plus a couple of times even more slower because of the ext/nfs/whatever overhead (NBD/squashfs is block-based and read-only, so it's more efficient). So to sum up, if you did what you want, you'd get about 5 times slower disk access, and your only benefit would be that ltsp-update-image would finish a few seconds sooner. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, you don't need a complex infrastructure or vast IT resources to deliver seamless, secure access to virtual desktops. With this all-in-one solution, easily deploy virtual desktops for less than the cost of PCs and save 60% on VDI infrastructure costs. Try it free! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Citrix-VDIinabox _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
