22 Jul
2020
22 Jul
'20
2:17 a.m.
On 7/21/2020 6:44 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
When I first came on the scene, there was a convention
that I thought
worked well: the "dataless" node. I have no idea why it was called that;
I don't know either, but I implemented a dataless architecture for
all the OSF/1 machines in the CS department at UC Berkeley in the
1990s. I wrote this up (see
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.unix.osf.osf1/-s1xW80zXPE/OGENDh…
and it eventually made the OSF1 FAQ.
It made a huge difference back when disks were small.
This was done with NFS 3.X which had no local caching.
I've always wondered how a dataless environment would
work on NFS 4.X, which could do local caching.
Jon