On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 8:18 AM, Christopher Samuel <ch...@csamuel.org> wrote: > The compute nodes boot a RHEL7 kernel with custom initrd, that > includes the necessary OPA and Lustre kernel modules & config > to get the networking working and access the Lustre filesystem, > the kernel then pivots its root filesystem from the initrd to > the master copy on Lustre via overlayfs2 to ensure the compute > node sees it as read/write but without the possibility of it > modifying the master (as the master is read-only in overlayfs2). > > Does that help?
it does. the overlayfs part is the interesting bit. i'll have to read up some about that _______________________________________________ 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
