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RE: Diskless server? Thats inconceivable!
@Jaime said:
I've tried boot from SAN before and I'd rather have a local disk for the OS. It keeps the SAN from having tons of tiny LUNs and makes disaster recovery 100 times easier. HP sells flash media for their servers, along with a custom build of VMware. I wonder if Dell has something similar?
That's not how you are supposed to do scalable diskless (at least for web farms, and other setups where you have bunches of identical machines). You create a master image, and you TFTP-boot your servers. That way, when you want to upgrade any of them, you upgrade the master image, and just reboot everything. The only LUNs you create are for the data partitions (if any), which you do want on the SAN.
Even if you have 1000 custom servers (each of which has a different OS and software configuration), it's still better to create 1000 images and TFTP-boot them, than create 1000 LUNs for the OS partitions.
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RE: Bell TV Software Update
@blakeyrat said:
What the fuck was it leaking? Is it... gasoline powered?
There are certainly days when I suspect that, yes..
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RE: Bell TV Software Update
I never thought the day would come when I would say kind things about Comcast, but here we are..
I've had a Comcast DVR on the west coast, ever since they introduced it (many years ago). It's always had a crappy UI, but at least it's stable, and doesn't have a lot of nasty surprises scattered around like land mines. And it's rock solid.
There was only one update I remember that caused even one problem (a leak), which they auto-fixed in a week or so. In the meantime, the menu has gotten a little less garish (yay!), but very little of consequence has changed one way or another.
Let's hear it for stability. I still have a program on my DVR from 2006 (!).