Bogdan Costescu wrote:
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Robert G. Brown wrote:
RHEL/Centos are good where vendors require "binary compatibility" on
closed source software, as the standard of said binary compatibility.
What strikes me in this whole discussion is the ideea of 'one
distribution fits all' when applied to all nodes of a cluster and all
applications that run on that cluster. In the days of PXE booting, with
several solutions readily available for either building a node from
scratch (like kickstart) or booting a prebuilt setup with NFS-root or
ramdisk, what's so difficult in matching on request a node, an
application and a distribution/custom setup ?
> [...]
Hello, Bogdan.
I use a combination of PXE booting, NFSROOT and ClusterNFS to set up
individual 'dataless' nodes the way I want - I'm using UNFS3, with
ClusterNFS extensions:
http://unfs3.sourceforge.net/
I know NFS gets a panning on this list, but it suits our needs!
Best wishes,
Tony.
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