Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 18 Jun 1996 00:26:00 +0200 | From | (Harald Milz) | Subject | Re: 2.2.0 wishlist |
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Systemkennung Linux (linux@informatik.uni-koblenz.de) wrote: > > During my MIPS hackery I found diskless machines a real help. Never dirty > filesystems. Forget about the shutdown command - just press reset. Too > bad that there was no swap via NFS.
There was, with Gero Kuhlmann's netboot-nfs package I used to set up the iX-Terminal last year. However swapping over NFS proved to be quite unreliable. We decided to drop the NFS-swap feature for the iX-Terminal and wait until a better solution hit the street. (NFS/TCP for example)
-- Harald Milz (hm@seneca.muc.de)
"All snakes who wish to remain in Ireland will please raise their right hands." -- Saint Patrick
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