Lloyd Brown wrote: > > Then again, before we had the cool bittorrent-based installer at work, > we were still able to install up to 50 or 60 nodes at a time, just off > the head node's 2 7200 RPM SCSI hard drives in a hardware RAID-1. So > you're right; it shouldn't be too bad. > > Just to clarify, though, when we did that many at a time, the install server really struggled, and we had a significant failure rate. Generally we limited it to 15 or 20 at a time. The bittorrent installer ended up making a huge difference.
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