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

[Oren Beck]

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 3:01 PM, David Nicol <davidnicol at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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Good addition to the concept! Andrew files system:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_file_system

Is a potential winner in the SFT clone I  am trying to figure out how
to put together. As for the OS on a separate drive project- What do
you suggest as the desired final File system choice ?

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Oren Beck

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