hi, We are also interested in using lustre for this so if anyone does try this out it would be very useful to have some notes/how-to for this.
Thanks Rene On 12/7/06 2:37 PM, "John R. Dunning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: "Sridharan Ramaswamy \(srramasw\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 12:25:51 -0800 > > Hi, > > Has anyone used Lustre client as root filesystem for diskless nodes? > > We have a test system in which diskless clients use lustre for their rootfs. > > I saw this old mail on using Lustre as root filesystem, > > https://mail.clusterfs.com/pipermail/lustre-discuss/2005-May/000702.html > > Is the HOWTO document mentioned in there available someplace? Seems it > is supposed to work w/ few known problem(may be there are fixed in > recent releases) > > I don't know of such a howto, but what Andreas says there is the basic > recipe. It's slightly easier in 1.6 (because there are a few less extra > pieces which must be included in the initrd) but the same basic ideas apply; > put all the modules (all the ones you need, anyway) in your initrd, get them > loaded from the init script, mount the fs in question, pivot root, and off you > go. > > There are some other things you'll probably want to pay attention to, for > instance it's a bad idea if all your clients share /var/log (!) but that kind > of thing is the same as if you were netbooting using nfs or anything else; all > easily handled from your init script. > > _______________________________________________ > Lustre-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.clusterfs.com/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss > -- Rene Salmon Tulane University Center for Computational Science http://www.ccs.tulane.edu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel 504-862-8393 Fax 504-862-8392 _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.clusterfs.com/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
