No, I prefer the unionfs way. To me it is more simple to have one / for all nodes and another / for the server.
Simon Le Tuesday 11 April 2006 16:13, Josh England a écrit : > Have you tried using oneSIS for going diskless? > > emerge -va onesis > > Check out http://onesis.org for more info. > > -JE > > On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 15:04 -0400, Simon-Nicolas Roth wrote: > > Hi, > > > > A small introduction: > > We currently own 2 small clusters. One with 42 opteron diskless nodes > > (adelie gentoo linux) and another one with 24 pentium 4 diskless nodes > > (based on Kyron's wiki > > http://wiki.neuralbs.com/index.php/Gentoo_Diskless_Client). > > > > We have seen a nice upgrade in perfomance when we changed the 24 nodes > > cluster from Redhat to Gentoo. > > > > The question: > > We are in discussion to make a cluster with around 1024 nodes for > > parallel scientific computing. I want to convince that Gentoo would be > > better on this cluster than RedHat! Most people around this project don't > > believe in Gentoo (obviously because they have never done anything with > > Gentoo). > > > > Does anyone have really solid arguments/articles/proofs about the > > performance of Gentoo on clusters to help me convice the RedHat guys? > > > > Thanks > > Simon -- gentoo-cluster@gentoo.org mailing list
