Comment go remote? (Score 1) 61
Do you have a box *anywhere* that you can trust to stay up?
I run a NFS-Root workstation that boots from floppy and then gets its disk over NFS. It *can't* cleanly shut down, since it doesn't know what to do after the filesystems are unmounted. I've been just turning it off for a year, haven't had any problems (but hopefully someone will tell me if I'm being lucky). The server deals with keeping the disks happy.
I run a NFS-Root workstation that boots from floppy and then gets its disk over NFS. It *can't* cleanly shut down, since it doesn't know what to do after the filesystems are unmounted. I've been just turning it off for a year, haven't had any problems (but hopefully someone will tell me if I'm being lucky). The server deals with keeping the disks happy.
