Hi,
I'm setting up a cluster, made of diskless workstations, booting
through NFS. For that purpose I created a copy of the node's
filesystem in a /tftpboot directory. That is, I have a full filesytem
for each single node : /tftpboot/192.168.1.1, /tftpboot/192.168.1.2, /
tftpboot/192.168.1.3, etc.
I know that there are several different options to make several
clients mounting their filesystems, and that this one might not be the
most efficient one, but I choosed that one just because I knew already
how to do it. Now everything works fine, except that I would like to
spare some diskspace on the master partition. Since each filesystem is
around 500 Mb, I quickly reach more than 10Gb just for the /tftpboot
directory.
A quick solution I founded is to mount the largests directory (which
are the same for each node) of the / (namely /lib and /var) from a
separate common directory. Could this cause some problem in the way
the node's are working? Is there any other easy/fast way to reduce the
amount of data contained in the /tftpboot/192.168.1.* directories?
I also heard about ClusterNFS which would do exactly what I need, but
then I would have to start everything from the beggining and I want
everything to work as soon as possible.
Thanks a lot for answers/advices,
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Maxime Kinet
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Physique Statistique et Plasmas, CP 231
Campus Plaine - Boulevard du Triomphe,
1050 Bruxelles.
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