On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Daniel Baumann <[email protected]> wrote: > Ivan Shmakov wrote: >> >> BTW, I wonder, what are the largest Debian Live >> ``installations'' booted over the network? It seems that I'll >> be able to have at least 30 hosts or so boot Debian Live and be >> running at the same time here, if I get the security thing >> working. > > i've heard that someone has a setup with about 150 machines, however, the > clients are not booting all at the same time, but cascaded, and do some nfs > tricks with multiple servers. > > --
I have set up clusters of 50 machines using methods very similar to Debian Live netboot, using a single server. Making the filesystem available as a single squashfs file seems to work pretty well with NFS. Maybe with larger setups some NFS tricks are needed. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
