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From: "Francisco J Ballesteros" <nemo@lsub.org>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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We have not 1000, but about 200 terminals for students.
We use a script to generate pxe files from ndb entries. Not std, I admit,
but works well. In the end, we even forgot about /cfg/pxe.


On 4/12/07, erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com> wrote:
> perhaps for a cluster, a fileserver that can construct the proper
> configuration from the mac address (or whatever you wish)
> would be a slick way to go.  this would be very doable with ndb.
>
> - erik
>
> On Thu Apr 12 14:25:03 EDT 2007, rminnich@gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > what's interesting about this file per node config stuff:
> > 1. small sites don't need it
> > 2. for big sites, it's just not practical at all. File per node on
> > 1024 or more nodes? it just won't go. And 1024 is not a lot.
> > 3. For medium sites, it's kind of ok, I guess.
>
>