Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932777AbXHASCY (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Aug 2007 14:02:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1765667AbXHASB5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Aug 2007 14:01:57 -0400 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:46678 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1765320AbXHASB4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Aug 2007 14:01:56 -0400 Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 20:01:54 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Hans-Peter Jansen cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jan Blunck , Josef Sipek , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Bharata B Rao Subject: Re: [RFC 12/26] ext2 white-out support In-Reply-To: <200708011200.44093.hpj@urpla.net> Message-ID: References: <20070730161323.100048969@weierstrass.suse.de> <20070731163656.GC22350@filer.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> <20070731170012.GN5101@hasse.suse.de> <200708011200.44093.hpj@urpla.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 698 Lines: 21 On Aug 1 2007 12:00, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: > >*) The amount of administration work of any (necessary, unfortunately) >VMware XP instance running on top of those diskless clients excels that of >all diskless clients by an order of magnitude. Hardly :) Install XP, snapshot it when done. Copy .vmdk to 'all' machines. On security upgrades, revert to snapshot (well - if the workflow allows it), install, snapshot again. Etc. Work: 1 1/2. Jan -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/