>>>>> "Wayne" == Wayne Berke <berke@panix.com> 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.

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

Sure, but in these circumstances, the diskless-booted machine would
not be acting as a fileserver. At least, I'd hope not....