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From: Jon Forrest <nobozo@gmail.com>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] /bin vs /sbin
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 19:17:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5489aab7-efb4-8bcd-3ca7-9b47e9b7b305@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEoi9W7J3GfPSZ2fduVZj7NfwbTgmE049XcG1AU_z-eW=5D4cQ@mail.gmail.com>



On 7/21/2020 6:44 PM, Dan Cross wrote:

> When I first came on the scene, there was a convention that I thought 
> worked well: the "dataless" node. I have no idea why it was called that; 

I don't know either, but I implemented a dataless architecture for
all the OSF/1 machines in the CS department at UC Berkeley in the
1990s.  I wrote this up (see

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.unix.osf.osf1/-s1xW80zXPE/OGENDhH2Sc0J

and it eventually made the OSF1 FAQ.

It made a huge difference back when disks were small.
This was done with NFS 3.X which had no local caching.
I've always wondered how a dataless environment would
work on NFS 4.X, which could do local caching.

Jon


  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-22  2:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-21 17:55 Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-07-21 18:15 ` Warner Losh
2020-07-21 22:42   ` David Arnold
2020-07-22  3:33     ` Warner Losh
2020-07-21 18:22 ` arnold
2020-07-21 18:33   ` Warner Losh
2020-07-21 18:43     ` Larry McVoy
2020-07-22  1:16     ` tytso
2020-07-22  3:27       ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-07-22  3:35         ` Warner Losh
2021-01-27  5:56         ` Greg A. Woods
2021-01-27 19:06           ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2021-01-27 22:22             ` Warner Losh
2021-01-27 22:35             ` Greg A. Woods
2021-01-28  5:24               ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-07-22  1:44     ` Dan Cross
2020-07-22  2:17       ` Jon Forrest [this message]
2020-07-22  2:20         ` Adam Thornton
2020-07-22 13:30           ` Clem Cole
2020-07-22 13:43             ` Richard Salz
2020-07-22  2:27       ` Kurt H Maier
2020-07-21 19:24   ` Clem Cole
2020-07-22 13:39     ` Clem Cole
2021-01-29 23:50   ` Chris Hanson

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