Diskless Servers

[Martin Hepworth]

Evan

depends is you like a single point of failure for all your systems....if 
you loose the nfs/tftp server you're toast!!!

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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


Evan Sayer wrote:
> Hello-
> Is it a good idea to run a mail server or web server diskless?  The 
> reason I want to do this is so that all of our server's files will be in 
> one place which will make backups more convenient.  Basically I am 
> thinking of running one NFS/TFTP file server with disks, and those disks 
> will contain the partitions for a web server, a mail server, and a login 
> server which will all boot diskless.  Is this safe and ok performance 
> wise?  Thanks.
> 
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