On 14/01/17 01:20, Damir Krstic wrote:

> So, my question is, does it make sense to continue with stateless
> images, or would we be better served with statefull (installed on local
> disk) images. 

We started off stateful, but migrated to statelite a few years ago to
get the best of both worlds.

1) no local HD's (increased reliability, HD failure was our biggest killer)

2) some way to have some state for things like GPFS, slurmd logs.

We build libraries of osimages so we can drop back should we hit
problems pretty seamlessly (needed a few times).

No intention of going back to stateful here.

cheers,
Chris
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