[ale] SWAP over NFS

[Chris Fowler]

On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 03:56 -0400, ale-request at ale.org wrote:
> 
> Maybe I'm missing something, but if your thin clients are powerful 
> enough to run firefox and flash smoothly, why are they being used as 
> thin clients? Wouldn't a setup like Chris is trying to accomplish
> (swap 
> and root fs over the network, with the appropriate tmpfses so that 
> multiple clients don't clobber /var/run etc) be just as easy to 
> administer and require less beefy server hardware?

Well, my server is my desktop.  It has about 120GB of disk and 1GB of
RAM.  I'm find with these devices using disk I/O but I do not need them
chewing up my memory.  evolution, firefox, and vmplayer do a good enough
job wasting memory as it is.

I was thinking about the multi-client one nfs root idea and had not
thought about giving them their own /var/run, /tmp, /var/log, etc
directories yet.  My idea was simply to copy the full system
for /nfsroot/001, 002, 003, etc.  These systems only occupy 2GB of disk
and I plan to only have 2 at my host at the most.