> We configure clusters for our customers with Scyld Beowulf which does > not nfs-mount > root but rather just nfs-mounts the home directories because of its > particular lightweight > compute node model, (PXE booting into RAM) and so does not run into the > typical > nfs-root scalability issues. > > Michael > > Michael Will
At what node count does the nfs-root model start to break down? Does anyone have any rough numbers with the number of clients you can support with a generic linux NFS server vs a dedicated NAS filer? Cheers, Guy -- Dr. Guy Coates, Informatics System Group The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1HH, UK Tel: +44 (0)1223 834244 x 6925 Fax: +44 (0)1223 496802 _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
