I need a bit of guidance, when building a windows network with clients that boot from a single iSCSI VHD disk. whats the recommended way for setting up a disk (or file-system ) where individual clients will save their data. I saw an article on http://etherboot.org/wiki/appnotes/cowfor setting up COW devices on linux but I am looking for how this can be done on Windows OS or any other way. I have googled a lot but I cant seem to find anything online. I am using Tiny Pxe Server. many thanks in advance
Network Booting shared Disks / Filesystem
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Posted 04 October 2018 - 07:53 AM
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Posted 04 October 2018 - 10:22 AM
Not at all my field of experience but most probably you are not looking for a COW but rather a ROW solution:
https://en.wikipedia...omputer_storage
That AFAIK is similar to the way you can have in VM's the snapshot or redologs images or delta disks.
All in all we are going back to the more generic (in the sense of not connected to network booting, etc.) of some kind of "Union FS":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnionFS
In the Windows world, recent Enterprise editions do have UWF overlays, but disk overlays are (still?) considered experimental:
https://docs.microso...rise/uwfoverlay
Otherwise there are some dokan based filesystems, but AFAIK they are all experimental, only partially working or however not at all ready for production, example:
https://github.com/CBonnell/aufs4win
Wonko
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Posted 04 October 2018 - 09:48 PM
Many thanks for this Wonko
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