Request for Comments: Keeping the OS and Data on phsyically seperated drives

[David Nicol]

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Geoffrion, Ron P [IT]
<Ron.Geoffrion at sprint.com> wrote:
> >>The result is a "one user data library - OS Agnostic to the computer accessing it model.
>
>  Not likely.

done every day, for decades.  Client/server, tiered architectures do
exactly this.

As the original, small-disk best practices of keeping data on /var or
/var/spool or
wherever.  With the newer vast hard drives, we've gotten sloppy to the point of
forgetting that it was not ever thus.

Distributed file systems -- andrew file system, etc -- designed to keep your
valuable data in the secure and robust organizational central store so you
don't have to worry about which machine you use in the lab or if your laptop
gets stolen -- it's all been done.


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