From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 15:20:56 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] RFS was: Re: UNIX of choice these days? In-Reply-To: References: <201709270844.v8R8i2kd021180@freefriends.org> <201709281349.v8SDnHp2005910@freefriends.org> Message-ID: <20170928222056.GD28606@mcvoy.com> On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 08:08:16AM +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote: > On Thu, 28 Sep 2017, Clem Cole wrote: > > >Truth is that an Sun-3 running 'diskless' != as an Apollo running > >'twinned.' [There is a famous Clem' story I'll not repeat here from > >Masscomp about a typo I made, but your imagination would probably be right > >- when I refused to do build a diskless system for Masscomp].... > > Not the infamous "dikless" workstation? I remember a riposte from a woman > (on Usenet?), saying she didn't know that it was an option... I dunno why all the hating on diskless. They actually work, I used the heck out of them. For kernel work, stacking one on top of the other, the test machine being diskless, was a cheap way to get a setup. Sure, disk was better and if your work load was write heavy then they sucked (*), but for testing, for editing, that sort of thing, they were fine. --lm (*) I did a distributed make when I was working on clusters. Did the compiles on a pile of clients, all the data was on the NFS server, I started the build on the NFS server, did all the compiles remotely, did the link locally. Got a 12x speed up on a 16 node + server setup. The other kernel hacks were super jealous. They were all sharing a big SMP machine with a Solaris that didn't scale for shit, I was way faster.