From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v609) In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <12D8FB09-4D61-11D8-8A73-000A95E29604@nas.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Jack Johnson Subject: Re: [9fans] standalone cpu server wiki To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 21:00:33 -0800 Topicbox-Message-UUID: bf5b2446-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Jan 21, 2004, at 9:58 PM, mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca wrote: > novel!) way of fixing things -- next time your fossil crashes send me > an email and I'll give you an account on ucalgary.ca where you can > boot your system as a terminal and fix your fossil in about 15 > minutes flat. in fact, you can fix pretty much anything from > everywhere as long as you have a decent 9pcdisk kernel to start with. The last time I had terminals booting off a file server I was tempted to try this very thing, booting across the Internet. Unfortunately, my current available bandwidth would not make it entertaining (though my telco just called last night to hound me about their new DSL coverage in my neighborhood). What's the performance like? Would a thin client with a small cfs partition on, say, flash have adequate performance over, say, a 256kbps connection? -Jack