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From: jdh@bu-pub.bu.edu (Jason Heirtzler)
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Subject: dataless RISC-6000?
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Date: 3 Jan 91 23:42:43 GMT
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Has anyone tried to make their RISC-6000 a "dataless workstation" ie. have
a local root and swap filesystem, but mount /usr over the net?  It's very
tempting, since the savings can be significant, but there's some things on
/usr that aren't sharable (for example, the database of LPPs), so this would
not seem possible in this release.  How about it Austin?

jdh

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