2008/10/2 Bogdan Costescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, Eric Thibodeau wrote: > >> the NFS root approach only does changes on the head node and changed files >> don't need to be propagated and are accessed on a as-needed basis, this >> might have significant impacts on large deployments > > NFS-root doesn't scale too well, the implementation of NFS in Linux is quite > chatty.
It's scaled great in our experience. We run 1000+ machines off NFS root, running lots of large third-party applications from there as well. The NFS servers are just a pair of Linux servers, nothing fancy. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
