On Friday 09 August 2002 13:47, Alex Perry wrote: > From: Wim Godden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > I've got a problem getting some diskless clients to run. I want to > > migrate some servers from standalone to having the same storage. I've > > got a 160GByte RAID-system running Linux which would contain all data > > for all the servers. To minimize the risk of servers going down due to > > hard drive problems, I've decided to have them booting from the > > RAID-system as well. > > The problem is : how do I get this done ? I want to be able > > to setup the > > systems without too much hacking around, as I need to add servers > > regularly. The servers all have different configurations (some of them > > are webservers, some of them are mailservers, etc.) so I can't use the > > same nfs root directory. > > The lazy way I did it, when I wanted that for a while, was to use the > same diskless boot infrastructure that runs the LTSP clients to boot > the main servers. However, they get given a different NFS root that > corresponds to a tree that you're maintaining over on the RAID server. > In order to bring the whole thing back up, after a power failure, you > need a DHCP and TFTP server that isn't diskless. The obvious thing is > to make the RAID server provide those services ... only (not much traffic). > > > Is there a way to start from a standard distribution > > (RedHat/Slackware/Suse) and build a diskless client (in fact a server) > > based on it ? > > There was a package that allows a standard debian system to run diskless. > I don't know much about it, but it apparently re-arranges bits of > filesystem.
Mandrake 9.0 will include terminal services out of the box, and has what they call ClusterNFS. I am hoping that it will handle local devices out of the box as well. Name: clusternfs Version: 3.0.rc2-4mdk Size: 231 KB Summary: ClusterNFS server ClusterNFS allows diskless clients to share a single root filesystem by matching "tagged" filenames of the form "filename$$TAG=value$$" with fallback to the original filename. -- "The place of the material world in the universe is that of an exquisitely beautiful precipitate or varied cloud-work in the universal �ther, determined by a geometrical necessity...." ~ Professor John G. Macvicar1870 ~ Brent Hasty http://www.Hasty-Solutions.com ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Dice - The leading online job board for high-tech professionals. Search and apply for tech jobs today! http://seeker.dice.com/seeker.epl?rel_code=31 _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
