Hi John, Thanks for the rough outline. While I'm still brushing up on the basic initrd sequence, here are few questions...
> > > https://mail.clusterfs.com/pipermail/lustre-discuss/2005-May/0 > 00702.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, by this you mean to include Lustre modules that typically gets loaded during lconf, right? > get them loaded from the init script, mount the fs in question, > pivot root, and off you go. I was not aware of this "pivot_root" until now. This is perfect!! Again, if you have this basic recipe described in more detailed, it will great. > > 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. > Oh sure. I too was thinking that nodes shouldn't share dirs like /etc, /var/log, etc. thanks, Sridhar ------------------------------ Software Engineer Cisco Systems, Inc sridhar <at> cisco <dot> com ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.clusterfs.com/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
