>|>So even though I work in this area as a software engineer, and I'd love
>|>to chat about this subject, I won't. Except to say -- I appreciate and
>|>share by email with my co-workers many of the discussions in this
>|>newsgroup, including this one; and am sensitive to meeting customer
>|>needs -- which unfortunately are often conflicting when viewed in the
>|>aggregate.
>
>I'd like to see HP reflect back to its customers (via this newsgroup) what it sees as being conflicting needs, both for customer edification, and for further discussion to help HP in formulating a response/plan.
>
>David W. Cooley
I don't work near the people that are investigating NFS Diskless so I'm
not an expert. The negative feedback I have gotten from customers is:
1) Not industry standard
2) Diskless doesn't work through IP routers
3) CDFs are yet another implementation. It could be done with a
dedicated root file system and symlinks/mountpoints.
There are also some internal disadvantages to HP in supporting diskless