diskless client tftp

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nurweilroot
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diskless client tftp

Post by nurweilroot » 2022/03/22 14:59:41

Hello,

I have some clients which will used as diskless Clients. I looked to trough some sites but I cant find the perfect solution. I found one site which shows me the scenario with tftp and nfs bit i think, that the multiple client systems cant write at the same time to the same media (nfs). Can you help me for finding the right solution? It should boot via Network and the Systems has 32GB flash storage, which can be used temporary.
The clients will be show a Website with firefox.

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Re: diskless client tftp

Post by BShT » 2022/03/23 13:13:29

the client has 32GB flash storage ?

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Re: diskless client tftp

Post by TrevorH » 2022/03/23 13:25:36

NFS can be written to by multiple clients but you can't (reliably) write to the same files so you would need to do things like change log directories to /var/log/$hostname/ etc. I've never done diskless booting so that's a theoretical method to make it work and there may be better ones.
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