Hi all,
Here are the two solutions I got from
"Biondi, Michael" <mbiondi@dlj.com>
"Ken Robson" <oranged@worldonline.dk> to my question which I have
mentioned below. I'm really thankful to both of them.
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I working on a problem from quite some time but till now I could not
find a satisfying solution. I have a scenario.
I've a setup in which an Ultra 5 workstation is running on Solaris 7
OS. This acts as a generic OS server for all architecture like sun4u,
sun4m etc. I've few diskless clients which boots off net from this
server. I'm using Solstice host manager to add diskless clients to the
server.
The Solstice Host manager create a separate directory for each client.
So there are multiple copies of root directory for each client on the
server.
What I would like to know is that,whether can I have a single copy of
root directory for same type of hosts and another separate directory
which contains the unique info about each client or not ? This will save
the space on the server.
I'm not using dhcp services.
Please throw some light on it.
Thanking you.
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Reply #1 .No. Individual machines need to have a writable /etc to
maintain things like /etc/mnttab, among other files - it of course
depends what you have
installed. However, you could make / very small for each client (~60M).
This is nothing on a 9G platter.
Reply #2 I do not think this is possible. There are many per machine
configuration
files that each host requires, also they have their device trees. The
only
method I can think of is to have a single root but to use the
automounter to
mount /dev, /devices and /etc from an NFS server. Automounting allows
you
to use an number of variables, I believe one of them is hostname, if it
is
not you can use scripts to generate the pathname (although there are
security concerns about doing this). This would allow you to only keep
the
truly dynamic elements of root as single entities but at 25Mb each it is
not
really worth the effort unless you have an awful lot of clients.
So I think I can leave the idea of having single root tree for number of
clients. But surely I'll give a try.
Regards,
Arvind
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