Maxime, Would it be feasible to use "ln" to create symbolic links to populate /tftproot/192.168.1.N, for each node N, from say /tftproot/generic ? Peter
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 5:26 AM, Maxime Kinet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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, > > ------------------ > Maxime Kinet > Université Libre de Bruxelles > Physique Statistique et Plasmas, CP 231 > Campus Plaine - Boulevard du Triomphe, > 1050 Bruxelles. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > >
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