Yes! this is exactly what I needed. It works perfectly. Thanks!
/usr/lpp/mmfs/bin/mmsdrrestore -p <primary> -R /usr/bin/scp
-- ddj
Dave Johnson
On Jan 22, 2014, at 2:26 PM, Christian Caruthers
<christian.caruth...@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> In the past, with stateless nodes, I install the rpms during image build and
> set rc.local to run mmsdrrestore on the stateless node to sync it with the
> cluster.
>
> Regards,
> Christian Caruthers
> Senior Consultant
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> David D Johnson --- [xcat-user] Embedding GPFS 3.5 into xcat diskless boot
> images ---
>
> From: "David D Johnson" <david_john...@brown.edu>
> To "xCAT Users Mailing list" <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Wed, Jan 22, 2014 14:03
> Subject [xcat-user] Embedding GPFS 3.5 into xcat diskless boot images
>
> 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
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