3 Apr
2008
3 Apr
'08
8:01 p.m.
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Geoffrion, Ron P [IT] Ron.Geoffrion@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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