N-gated Hacker NewsMay 7
🎉 In the latest episode of "Things No One Asked For", our hero bravely attempts to boot #Linux #diskless using #ZFS, #iSCSI, and #PXE just to avoid messing with Windows. Because clearly, the only logical solution to not wanting to clutter your #gaming PC with toolchains is to summon the unholy trinity of ancient network boot protocols. 🥳 Honestly, why not just run Doom on your fridge while you're at it? 😂
https://aniket.foo/posts/20260505-netboot/ #HackerNews #ngated
Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI & PXE

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N-gated Hacker NewsOct 29, 2025
🚧 Oh, finally! An article that doesn't just analyze #Kafka but also gives us the complete #genealogy of #Jack Vanlightly's blog posts. 🙄 Who knew we needed a #diskless Kafka #roadmap that could double as a sleep aid? 💤
https://jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2025/10/22/a-fork-in-the-road-deciding-kafkas-diskless-future #Vanlightly #SleepAid #HackerNews #ngated
A Fork in the Road: Deciding Kafka’s Diskless Future — Jack Vanlightly

“ The Kafka community is currently seeing an unprecedented situation with three KIPs ( KIP-1150 , KIP-1176 , KIP-1183) simultaneously addressing the same challenge of high replication costs when running Kafka across multiple cloud availability zones. ” — Luke Chen, The Path Fo

Jack Vanlightly
Hacker NewsOct 29, 2025

A Fork in the Road: Deciding Kafka's Diskless Future

https://jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2025/10/22/a-fork-in-the-road-deciding-kafkas-diskless-future

#HackerNews #Kafka #Future #Diskless #Technology #Innovation

A Fork in the Road: Deciding Kafka’s Diskless Future — Jack Vanlightly

“ The Kafka community is currently seeing an unprecedented situation with three KIPs ( KIP-1150 , KIP-1176 , KIP-1183) simultaneously addressing the same challenge of high replication costs when running Kafka across multiple cloud availability zones. ” — Luke Chen, The Path Fo

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CaioAug 24, 2025

Outra coisa que eu estava pesquisando na madrugada: sistemas #diskless. Explico: com a profusão de pequenos computadores chineses, vários deles baseados em processadores Ryzen de bom desempenho, fiquei pensando no seguinte:

"Para fins de otimização tributária e maximização de utilidade, não faz mais sentido importar o sistema sem RAM e disco? Vários fabricantes oferecem a opção e assim é mais fácil configurar do jeito que eu quero..."

Na sequência, pensei que faria sentido importar sem RAM e sem disco e colocar apenas RAM. Com a economia, é possível ter mais RAM, mas isso exige boot pela rede. Eis que comecei a pesquisa.

Depois de me deparar com uma documentação desatualizada desde 2017 no #Debian, acabei descobrindo que o #LTSP segue vivo. Desde 2019, o projeto foi reorientado. Os clientes não podem ser leves agora, pois há todo um "encantamento" baseado em squashfs, o qual demanda mais RAM, porém, o desempenho tende a ser melhor e o servidor não precisa servir desktops inteiros pela rede (algo que, graças à ineficiência atual de toolkits, Wayland, etc, é pesado, já que virou streaming de vídeo).

Para clientes modestos, ainda existem outras opções, com ou sem LTSP envolvido.

N-gated Hacker NewsApr 16, 2025
So, #Kafka wants to go "diskless" now? 🤔 Because all that #data #storage is, like, soooo 2022. 🎉 Next up: a Kafka plugin that stores your data in the clouds... literally! ☁️✨
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-1150%3A+Diskless+Topics #Diskless #Cloud #Innovation #CloudComputing #DataStorage #2023TechTrends #HackerNews #ngated
KIP-1150: Diskless Topics - Apache Kafka - Apache Software Foundation

Hacker NewsApr 16, 2025

KIP-1150: Diskless Kafka Topics

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-1150%3A+Diskless+Topics

#HackerNews #KIP-1150 #Diskless #Kafka #Topics #Kafka #KIP #Apache #Kafka #Diskless #Topics

KIP-1150: Diskless Topics - Apache Kafka - Apache Software Foundation

Hacker NewsMar 6, 2025
Warewulf is a stateless and diskless container OS provisioning system — https://github.com/warewulf/warewulf
#HackerNews #Warewulf #Diskless #Containers #OS #Provisioning #Hackers #News #OpenSource
GitHub - warewulf/warewulf: Warewulf is a stateless and diskless container operating system provisioning system for large clusters of bare metal and/or virtual systems.

Warewulf is a stateless and diskless container operating system provisioning system for large clusters of bare metal and/or virtual systems. - warewulf/warewulf

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Show threadThe Last Psion | AlexAug 18, 2024

Hold on... #AlpineLinux's update-kernel tool actually has an option for adding kernel modules and firmware!

```
mount /dev/mmcblk0p2 /mnt/
mkdir /mnt/tmp
mkdir /mnt/boot
TMPDIR=/mnt/tmp/ update-kernel -a aarch64 -f rpi -p zfs-rpi -M /mnt/boot
```

Copy the files in /mnt/boot over to the root of the SD card. Job done! I just need to pay attention at the next Alpine update to make sure I rebuild the kernel at the same time.

This should really be in the wiki.

#ZFS #diskless

Your Autistic Life Jun 7, 2024

"This workstation has no penis!"

"That's right. It is a dickless workstation."

"Oh, so it cannot be fscked then."

#diskless #workstation #fsck #joke #lewd #sex

Show threadOS/1337Jan 28, 2024

@Jain If Linus wasn't a weapons-grade #TechIlliterate and had actual 100GBASE-SR1.2 as per 802.3bm-2015 installed as well as proper storage and networking in general then there would've been nothing wrong with a #diskless workstation setup.

The problem is that he doesn't know what he's doing and the more experience I gain the more obvious it gets that he doesn't know tech!

For real...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYQtusd8deU&t=28s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Gigabit_Ethernet#100G_interface_types

#Lienus #LTT #LinusTechTips

The Truth about LinusTechTips - EXPOSED (April Fools 2020)

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