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List:       lustre-discuss
Subject:    [Lustre-discuss] Lustre client as root filesystem
From:       minich () ornl ! gov (Minich, Makia)
Date:       2006-12-12 6:02:28
Message-ID: 537C6C0940C6C143AA46A88946B854170386CA91 () ORNLEXCHANGE ! ornl ! gov
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I've only been half following this thread, but I just had a thought.  Has anyone attempted to use lustre with UnionFS to create a root filesystem?  Right now there are some diskless packages that mount a ramdisk and a read-only NFS mount, use unionfs to create a unified filesystem and mount that over /.  If you were to replace NFS with a read-only mount of lustre (does that exist?), you could easily create a shared root filesystem over lustre with full r/w privileges to each client node.  (If this was mentioned before, re-read my first sentence.)


-----Original Message-----
From: lustre-discuss-bounces@clusterfs.com on behalf of David Golden
Sent: Tue 12/12/2006 5:48 AM
To: lustre-discuss@clusterfs.com
Subject: Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre client as root filesystem
 
On Monday 11 December 2006 19:56, Sridharan Ramaswamy (srramasw) wrote:
> Thanks David for the script and pointers. 

Note that some of the bind mounts are optional, it's not quite a "minimal set"
of stuff you need - e.g. I used per host sysvinit runlevels (/etc/rc.d/*) to 
run different services on different hosts, and the host specific networking 
stuff arose because only a small subset of our nodes have infiniband, 
but if you have an entirely uniform cluster you mightn't have to bother...





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