This isn't really a distribution-related comment but in light of Vincent's
points I think it's appropriate. We're running diskless nodes from a single
generic root fs ramdisk which is dynamically configured at boot by a
cfengine script. Other filesystems (ie /usr) are mounted over nfs.
I've found
that this combination of pxelinux and cfengine is extremely powerful for
managing clusters - especially ones that tend to change frequently.
paul
Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
Let me kick off with a few points, most likely many will enhance that
with more points
a) having a compiled driver into the kernel of the network card in
question
this is by far the hardest part.
b) pdsh installed at all machines and naming of machines in a logical
manner
c) diskless operation at nodes other than the masternode, using local
disk only as 'scratch'
d) because A usually goes wrong the capability to easily compile a
vanilla kernel inside the distribution
D is by far most important
Vincent
----- Original Message ----- From: "Eray Ozkural" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <beowulf@beowulf.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2006 3:06 PM
Subject: [Beowulf] Ultimate cluster distro
I would like to make a small survey here to get
a rough idea of every essential detail in a cluster
distro, because I am thinking of writing some add-on
for our linux distribution to this end.
Best,
--
Eray Ozkural (exa), PhD candidate. Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent
University, Ankara
http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo Malfunct: http://www.malfunct.com
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