On 5 Jul 2010, at 06:36, Holden Dapenor wrote: > How does diskless clustering work for those aspects of the OS that need to be > unique for each node?
Differently for each distribution. > For instance, network configuration and hostfiles need to be specified > somewhere hostfiles are the same, network configuration including hostname can be done by dhcp. > but if all nodes boot the same root, then where is this information stored? This is not mandated by diskless configuration, you may choose to share / ro between clients and have a rw copy of /var for each client or you may choose to have an entire fs tree for each client. Another option might be to use fuse although I don't have much experience of that myself, it's basically the same but each client would have a copy-on-write version of /var and /etc to allow them to write to files in these directories. Ashley. -- Ashley Pittman, Bath, UK. Padb - A parallel job inspection tool for cluster computing http://padb.pittman.org.uk _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
