How about combining mosix and LTSP?  See <http://mosix-ltsp.dynu.com/>. 
Mosix does for computers what SMP does for CPU's (lets multiple machines
operate as a single unit without special programming).  If a computer
fails, you lose a couple processes instead of the whole computer. 
There's nothing that would prevent you from having redundant NFS servers
in the mix as well.

Just a thought.

George


Bill Warner wrote:
> 
> Hmmm,  I wonder if using an IBM GPFS shared cluster rather than nfs
> would be a good way to run the terminal server?
> 
> I am looking into building a cluster for one of our application
> servers.  Maybe I will hold that knowledge for use in a terminal server
> project.  Just seems like running any kind of terminal servers runs a
> huge possibility with a single point of failure that would put a lot of
> sales people out of work for the downtime.
> 
> Bill W
> 
> On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 16:52, Matt Alexander wrote:
> > On 2 Oct 2002, Bill Warner wrote:
> >
> > > If anyone knows of a good way to support 700 Linux desktops I would be
> > > more than open to suggest ins.
> >
> > Lots of Linux Terminal Servers.  :-)  Have the home directories mounted
> > on several NFS servers.  Create fail-over NFS servers that rsync the
> > user's home directories over each night.  Make good backups too.
> >
> > http://ltsp.org
> >
> > http://k12ltsp.org
> >
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