laik@cs.stanford.edu
Portable administration
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1000 nodes => some down => can reintegrate
Synchronicity.
Customization.
Problem is must work while disconnected.
 * Coda (synchro) -> do simpler and at user level.
   (simultaneous update problem) rdist, sup. problem of replacing /vmunix
   synchro via disk. performance of updates.
 * slakware remove and then re-install -- patch installation.
 * Problem of familiarity? -> psych. question.
 * Custom I.P, Hostname -> easy
   local disk depot
 * Licencing daemons.
 * Updates from portable to host. (Bayou)
 * Testing if you can run disconnected -- general case of dependancies in system.
 * (Compressing file system)
 * Users want to do nifty control things -- right to change things.
 * Backup -- don't want to back up everything!