How early SunOS did diskless workstations before NFS(utcc.utoronto.ca)

10 pointsby cwbuildsvor 10 Tagen2 comments

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How early SunOS did diskless workstations before NFS

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/solaris/SunOSDisklessWithoutNFS

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rwmjvor 10 Tagen

Interesting! It uses (the Linux equivalent of) NBD. However as Chris says in the article that's not really an alternative to NFS since you can't share files meaningfully.

hulituvor 9 Tagen

Apollo's DomainOS also had diskless workstation which booted over a distributed, Token Ring network.