[526] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: some questions about using AFS to share core OS files
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Honeyman)
Wed Jan 15 16:46:11 1992
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1992 15:27:10 -0500 (EST)
From: Peter Honeyman <honey+@citi.umich.edu>
To: Info-AFS@transarc.com
In-Reply-To: <gdR7pKS00WAq06TXcR@andrew.cmu.edu>
in the citi.umich.edu cell (and its predecessor, the ifs.umich.edu
cell), we run our workstations "dataless" -- we don't put anything on
the local disk that might require backup or update.
we've done this since 1988 or so.
it makes us vulnerable to network partition and other sources of server
unavailablity, but that occurs rarely enough that we've never given
serious thought to populating the workstations with local copies of
system files (beyond those necessary for bootstrapping).
peter
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