On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Steve Simon <st...@quintile.net> wrote: > Is there a technique or program that can be used on a diskless > cpu server to make it auto-reconnect when the file server reboots? > > I remember reading about the Challange file servers at the labs, > in which (I believe) the cyclone driver would write reboot to > /dev/reboot if the connection dropped. > > Is there somthing similar I could do elegantly with a tcp/ip > connection? I could just do a readdir(2) of / every 10 secs and > reboot if that fails but I assume somthing already exists.
aux/reboot there is also recover (gorka should know where the source is these days) but that requires building a custom kernel to connect through it, and i'm not sure how well that particular setup works. russ
