[Hosting] PPC and Alpha are cool, but....

Elliot Badham Peele hosting.a.t.trilug.org
Wed, 14 Nov 2001 23:43:18 -0500 (EST)


how much rack space do we have at inflow?

elliot

On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Mike Johnson wrote:

> Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney [alchemist.a.t.darkcanvas.com] wrote:
> > ...I may have a mips to add to a "build farm" as well.
>
> Oh yeah?  An SGI?
>
> > Now, let's talk turkey. JonC says he's willing to give us an x86 bbox
> > for this purpose. How can we best (and most securely) hsare the user
> > accounts and home directories from fatalpha to this box?
> >
> > I'd rather not have to add everyone to every machine, with a different
> > home directory at each place. it feels so...wasteful.
>
> NFS across a dedicated net.  That seems the best way to handle it
> without making this too much of a pain in the ass to run.  It'd
> be great if someone would be willing to donate a low-end 10/100
> Mbps switch.
>
> There's a little more to it, but that's basicly what I'm looking
> at.
>
> Mike
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