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Why would this be useful?
by WC3w6pXxgGd 7y ago
Why would this be useful?
- ryanmjacobs 7y agoBecause RAM is faster than disk?
- gerdesj 7y agoMany, many years ago (~1995ish) I was tasked with putting in a small network for a factory. I settled on the newly released NetWare 4.0 for the server and ran Cat4 around the place and coax to link the hubs (yes hubs). PCs ran Win 3.11. One of them had such a shit slow (RLL I think) hard disc, I decided to network boot it instead and saved quite a lot of money.
- LinuxBender 7y agoMany reasons, but the ones that come to mind are: - Testing - quickly deploy a version of an OS and software to a fleet, then reboot into a pristine state or new state. - Lab cost reduction. No hard drives in most of the fleet. Less power used. - Consistent version across many test servers. People change things, reboot or power cycle and you are back into the same state. I've used something like this in production before using NFS diskless. That was a bit messy. For labs, testing, it is great.