[Linux-cluster] Diskless Shared-Root GFS/Cluster

[Tom Mornini]

We strongly considered this when implementing our cluster  
infrastructure,
but decided against it when we realized just how devastating *any*  
problem
with that shared root would be...

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On Jan 30, 2007, at 11:39 PM, Marc Grimme wrote:

> Mike,
> On Tuesday 30 January 2007 17:50, isplist at logicore.net wrote:
>> I saw a few posts from some working on this. Has anyone gotten  
>> this to work
>> properly? My nodes simply do not need their hard drives, it's a  
>> waste of
>> power and hardware since I have plenty of central storage. I would  
>> like to
>> remove drives from nodes and boot the cluster diskless.
>>
>> I've seen the open shared-root project and such but those seem to  
>> be about
>> building the entire cluster. Since I have the cluster going, I'm  
>> looking
>> for information on how I can convert my nodes to diskless.
>>
>> Thanks for any information you can provide.
>>
>> Mike
> There are quite a some people (increasing every day) using open- 
> sharedroot
> clusters in productive environments with loads of different  
> applications. I
> also wrote a MiniHowto and some other docs (have a look at
> www.open-sharedroot.org) to give assistance.
>
> As Mike Hagmann already stated it is not a trivial task to build up  
> such a
> cluster (as it's not a trivialtask to build up any type of productive
> clusters, but isn't that a reason why we are doing all that ;-) )  
> but the
> MiniHowto should help you on the one hand and on the other hand you  
> can get
> more help from open-sharedroot or us at ATIX (www.atix.de). If you  
> like.
> Feel free to ask.
> Regards and have fun
> Marc.
>>
>>
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