On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 12:15:35PM -0700, Grendel wrote: > I have read some of thislist and I'm trying to decide whether > there is real utility in using the scyld packages. I have noticed that > there is a utility called diskless. I have 20GB disks on each of the > nodes. Is the diskless method appropriate? I manage a cluster with five hosts that each have their own disks. I use the disks for /tmp and swap, and do everything else over the network. The idea is that the hosts are completely stateless and I can switch them around or swap out the drives without a hiccup, and I can update everything in one place. This has been working pretty well for me, though some sort of rsync scripts would probably work just as well. NFS traffic is minimal during normal computation, except for any data that is shared via the filesystem, which would have to be done over NFS anyway. -- Sean R. Lynch KG6CVV <seanl@literati.org> http://www.literati.org/~seanl/ Jabber:kg6cvv@jabber.org AIM:geekboi MSN:kg6cvv Yahoo:kg6cvv ICQ:10107887 GPG key fingerprint = 540F 19F2 C416 847F 4832 B346 9AF3 E455 6E73 B691 Bay Area Anarcho-Capitalists: http://www.literati.org/mailman/listinfo/baac
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