In message <12152.863428312@pc37.mpn.cp.philips.com>, Jim Reid writes:
> >>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Brusinsky <brusinsk@ibdr.inf.tu-dresden.de> writes
> :
> 
>     Andreas> So would it matter if I would boot it diskless compared
>     Andreas> to local related to possible driver omissions.
> 
> Yes, it does matter, but not in the way you think. It is never a good
> idea to have a file server - your proposed use of the machine - boot
> over the net. You want the server's network interface(s) to handle NFS
> requests. You don't want those packets competing with the server's
> swap and paging traffic if they're going over the net too.
> 

However, you might want to net boot for diagnostic purposes in the case
when the file server has a disastrous disk failure (all root partitions
damaged).

Of course, to do this, you'd need the kernel to be able to support client NFS.