In that article, he discusses mounting the machine-specific /etc (and the base root fs implied thereby) via NFS. I recall playing with the design for a small gr

In that article, he discusses mounting the machine-specific /etc (and the base root fs implied thereby) via NFS. I recall playing with the design for a small group of diskless of linux worstations (which I never actually built, because there was nothing I actually needed it for, it was just a fun idea). My design didn't mount root via NFS, but rather, each machine was supposed to be entirely stateless, booting from the network with PXE, getting a minimal rootFS and kernel from tftp, and then mounting /usr and /home via NFS. I don't recall if these boxen were then supposed to act as X-terminals, with only GUI display happening locally, and all execution happening on another box on the network, or if that was its own hey-wouldn't-it-be-cool-to-build-this-useless-but-nifty-thing-I-don't-need kind of project.