Hi Sridhar, We set up lustre as a root file system on a 28 node ppc 970 blade cluster (using CHRP instead of PXE) at the University of Colorado. I got it almost working with PXE boot as well but ran into an issue with it (hang? can't remember) and got side tracked. It worked rather well. Basic administration tasks such as logging in and accessing the root file system were quite slow, but our tests on a few distributed applications showed very little performance impact on running programs.
Here's a paper I presented on it at LCI 2006. We would love to hear your experiences setting it up, and hope this is useful. Let me know if we can be of any help here. http://www.linuxclustersinstitute.org/Linux-HPC-Revolution/Archive/PDF06/35-Cope_J_final.pdf -Adam "Sridharan Ramaswamy \(srramasw\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Has anyone used Lustre client as root filesystem for diskless nodes? > > 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) > > Appreciate any help on this. > > thanks, > Sridharan > ------------------------------ > Software Engineer > Cisco Systems, Inc > sridhar <at> cisco <dot> com > ------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.clusterfs.com/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
