Re: [K12OSN] CODA filesystem for redundant backend NFS servers

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Oh, I could see LVM being very useful in a smaller LTSP situation when you
start running out of disk space!  LOL!

You'll be kind and share the wealth when you have all the bugs worked out
of your intermezzo install, eh? ;-)

James Jensen
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openMosix
Try doing *that* with Windows!


--- Steve Wright  wrote:
> James Jensen wrote:
> 
> >Is Intermezzo going to accomplish the goal of failover/redundancy and/or
> >does it do the LVM stuff?
> >
> 
> Intermezzo makes /home[1] appear on all the Terminal Servers, just like 
> NFS mounting /home from elsewhere does.
> 
> With the NFS technique, one NFS server failure will kill the entire 
> network.  With Intermezzo, there is no NFS server to fail.  If a 
> Terminal Server faults, the users on that Server simply login again, and 
> continue working.
> 
> LVM is used where you need flexibility with volume sizes, as I 
> understand it.  Re-sizing partitions with LVM is easy, whereas 
> traditional partition-resizing is impractical or impossible.  IMO, this 
> is not really an issue for K12LTSP.
> 
> >
> >I guess it wasn't too painful to implement, eh?
> >
> 
> heh, Intermezzo has been rather painful here, so far..  8-)   It'll 
> work, I just need the correct packages I think.
> 
> 
> [1]  and other directories too, if you want.. even all of /
> 
> regards,
> Steve


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