[Linux-cluster] Using GFS to host root filesystem

Robert Peterson rpeterso at redhat.com
Thu Dec 7 22:43:13 UTC 2006


Lin Shen (lshen) wrote:
>
> Our system consists of a set of diskless clients. We'd like to host 
> the root filesystem for them using GFS (sort of like NFS mounting root 
> filesystem on target in a host-target setup). Part of the root 
> filesystem contents will be client specific and part will be common. 
> For the common part, only one copy should be there to be shared by the 
> clients. How can this be done using GFS?
>
> Lin   
>
Hi Lin,

You may want to take a look at my NFS/GFS Cookbook.  It's located here:
http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/doc/nfscookbook.pdf
Also, see this page of the faq:
http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/faq.html#gfs_diskless

Regards,

Bob Peterson
Red Hat Cluster Suite




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