On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 2:22 AM, Charles Johnson <[email protected]>wrote:

>
> The size of the files we serve are, typically, tiny: sudoers, hosts,
> hosts.equiv, and eight or ten others. They do not change often, but when
> they do, they need to be synched across the cluster. Our big bug-a-boo is
> seeing that new nodes are properly provisioned. The other issue we face is
> keeping a set of services running on nodes. autofs is notorious for us.
>

I would recommend you not to allow autofs to restart, but rather force a
reload (if your OS supports it).
(it would be similar to pulling the plug out of the machine :))

Just as a side note, do you have any software that manages your cluster ?
(e.g. LSF/ Sungrid etc?)
We have a distributed cluster with a couple of thousands of nodes and we are
very grateful for having puppet....

Ohad

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