I've only been half following this thread, but I just had a thought. Has anyone attempted to use lustre with UnionFS to create a root filesystem? Right now there are some diskless packages that mount a ramdisk and a read-only NFS mount, use unionfs to create a unified filesystem and mount that over /. If you were to replace NFS with a read-only mount of lustre (does that exist?), you could easily create a shared root filesystem over lustre with full r/w privileges to each client node. (If this was mentioned before, re-read my first sentence.)
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of David Golden Sent: Tue 12/12/2006 5:48 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre client as root filesystem On Monday 11 December 2006 19:56, Sridharan Ramaswamy (srramasw) wrote: > Thanks David for the script and pointers. Note that some of the bind mounts are optional, it's not quite a "minimal set" of stuff you need - e.g. I used per host sysvinit runlevels (/etc/rc.d/*) to run different services on different hosts, and the host specific networking stuff arose because only a small subset of our nodes have infiniband, but if you have an entirely uniform cluster you mightn't have to bother... _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.clusterfs.com/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.clusterfs.com/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
