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

[Geoffrion, Ron P [IT]]

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.


Well, yes, if you separate the client data from the OS using a network, thumbdrive, or other device that the/many operating system(s) can interface to, sure.

I was probably mislead by the question - I thought he wanted to do it on one machine, with the OS on on drive, data on another. We set servers up like that all the time for exactly that reason - OS on the root volume, data on a physically separate volume.

'ot likely' refers to the fact that you have to choose a 'universal' filesystem to swap between OS's on the same machine and access the /data partitions. There are some candidates for that - I'm just not familiar with a really good one when WinDoze it thrown in the OS swap mix. You'd probably end up buy Veritos to mitigate that issue between OSs'

Thanks,

Ron Geoffrion
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