We had a method that worked for the last 4.5 years up to this point, but today it stopped working. The old way had a copy of mgt node's /var/mmfs/gen embedded in the image. Adding new nodes was tedious, but doable: ssh to each node, remove the previous contents of /var/mmfs/gen, mmaddnode the new nodes, copy the most recent version of the /var/mmfs/gen stuff back into the image and repack it, finally reboot the nodes.
Everything was going fine up to the last step, where the mmautoload can't get itself going. Now I found the xCAT wiki page describing how to put GPFS into diskless images. I'm thinking the new way is probably better, but hoping to hear from somebody who has actually done this recently, before I spend a lot more time trying to debug. Thanks for any info, caveats, -- ddj Dave Johnson ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
