Our school district has been using diskless linux technology for about 13 years and have run into an issue with supporting various versions of nvidia drivers + open-source drivers on a single diskless image file-system. We did not want to duplicate the entire file system just to support various closed source drivers. We were able to solve the video driver issues allowing diskless client to detect and use any open or closed source video driver.
We have also improved the speed of the filesystem by implementing a mix of nfs + nbd + squasfs + aufs technologies.
Our school district has been using diskless linux technology for about 13 years and have run into an issue with supporting various versions of nvidia drivers + open-source drivers on a single diskless image file-system. We did not want to duplicate the entire file system just to support various closed source drivers. We were able to solve the video driver issues allowing diskless client to detect and use any open or closed source video driver.
We have also improved the speed of the filesystem by implementing a mix of nfs + nbd + squasfs + aufs technologies.
https://github.com/dmonty2/diskless-graphics
NOTE: This is for a diskless ubuntu setup ( not nessesarily DRBL based ). Just want to share the ideas with the drbl community.
Dear Dean,
Thanks for sharing with us.
DRBL have SSI mode and Clonezilla Box mode which is similar to the idea.
http://drbl.org/faq/fine-print.php?path=./2_System/16_modes_in_DRBL_clonezilla.faq#16_modes_in_DRBL_clonezilla.faq
Using nbd is an interesting idea. :)