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Rather than cover NFS Diskless as an area to manage, I’m going to deviate from the format found throughout this chapter and instead provide a brief description of NFS Diskless.
This topic was introduced with HP-UX 10.x. Diskless nodes were implemented with Distributed HP-UX (DUX) in HP-UX 9.x and earlier releases. Distributed HP-UX was first introduced in HP-UX 6.0 in 1986 and was successfully used in many HP installations. The new implementation of diskless nodes as of HP-UX 10.x is NFS Diskless. It has many desirable features, including the following: