Because I believe that if they crash, diskdump will still operate properly by dumping their memory contents to a dump file on the nfs mount to the master filesystem. -Tim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Jones" <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 5:35 PM Subject: Re: fc4 kernel build for diskless slave nodes > If the target machines have no disks, why are you building diskdump ? > > Dave >