On 8/17/07, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
They're MythTV frontends -- the server won't be able to handle it :)
-Dave
David Frascone wrote:
> Ok -- this is not really distribution specific, but I figure you guys may
> know the answer :)
>
> I have a couple of diskless machines that I boot off of one server. Today,
> one of them mis-behaved, and dropped a huge log file, filling my server's
> disk.
>
> I want to prevent this in the future. So, I'm looking for suggestions.
>
> I immediately thought of quotas, but, since the filesystems aren't owned by
> one user (they're full unix filesystems), that wouldn't work well.
>
> I'm now trying to decide if it would be best to create a filesystem in a
> file, mount that, and share that over NFS for the root.
>
> i.e.:
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/tftpboot/disk1.img count=whatever bs=whatever
> mkfs -t ext3 /tftpboot/disk1.img
> mount -o loop /tftpboot/disk1.img /tftpboot/disk1.mnt
> cp -a /tftpboot/oldDiskRoot/* /tftpboot/disk1.mnt
>
> then share /tftpboot/disk1.mnt, instead of /tftpboot/OlddiskRoot
>
>
>
> Any other suggestions?
If the server can handle it, boot the diskless machines as thin
terminals with the ltsp package and run the desktop on the server.
They're MythTV frontends -- the server won't be able to handle it :)
-Dave
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David Frascone
Help! I'm trapped in a Chinese computer factory!
