Re: [Beowulf] Choosing pxelinux.cfg DEFAULT via dhcpd.conf?

2010-04-22 Thread Prentice Bisbal
In your pxelinux.cfg directory, instead of default, you would need to create a file whose name is the MAC address of the client, or it's IP address in hexadecimal. See http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/PXELINUX * First, it will search for the config file using the hardware type (using its

[Beowulf] Choosing pxelinux.cfg DEFAULT via dhcpd.conf?

2010-04-22 Thread David Mathog
Is there a way to set dhcpd.conf so that it changes which pxelinux.cfg entry (LABEL) starts on a network boot? I think something like this can be done with the option pxelinux.magic combined with pxelinux.config file or pxelinux.pathprefix to specify a 2nd (or 3rd...) pxelinux.cfg file, each of wh

Re: [Beowulf] NFS share - IO rate

2010-04-22 Thread Bogdan Costescu
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Henning Fehrmann wrote: > Doing these tests on clients might give a better picture of the > usability of the cache system. > Measuring the performance on the server wouldn't also take into account the > buffering of the VFS or NFS on the client side. >From what I