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From: gluster-users-boun...@gluster.org
[mailto:gluster-users-boun...@gluster.org] On Behalf Of Jan
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 6:30 AM
To: gluster-users@gluster.org
Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Netboot / PXE-Boot fro
6:30 AM
To: gluster-users@gluster.org
Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Netboot / PXE-Boot from glusterfs?
Am 17.06.2010 13:15, schrieb Benjamin Hudgens:
Hello Jan,
Our company took the approach of slurping our OS into a ram drive and
then mounting file system points from Gluster. The OS becomes
Heh sure although we took a circuitous route to get to where we are.
To start with I recommend using DRBL (diskless remote boot linux). It's
a well maintained project and will save you a lot of initial headaches
of creating initrds compiling etc.
http://drbl.sourceforge.net/
It's nfs based bu
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-Original Message-
From: gluster-users-boun...@gluster.org
[mailto:gluster-users-boun...@gluster.org] On Behalf Of Jan
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 6:30 AM
To: gluster-users@gluster.org
Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Netboot / PXE-Boot from glusterfs?
Am 17.06.2010 13:15, schrieb Benjamin H
On 06/17/2010 04:05 PM, Mickey Mazarick wrote:
Let me know if anyone tries this; we can help with the first half
(getting gluster into an initrd).
That would be very interesting ; if you'd be willing to share your notes
on this procedure, i'm sure i wouldn't be the only one to thank you for
We have a similar setup booting from gluster where it loads the os into
a ramdrive, but there are concerns as you write logs etc since it can
start to eat up your ram.
there is an article from slashdot that had an interesting approach (look
under "setting up storage" halfway down):
http://blo
Am 17.06.2010 13:15, schrieb Benjamin Hudgens:
Hello Jan,
Our company took the approach of slurping our OS into a ram drive and
then mounting file system points from Gluster. The OS becomes
expendable. In our case (large amounts of dumb storage machines) this
is okay. We were itching to get a
oun...@gluster.org] On Behalf Of Jan
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 5:33 AM
To: gluster-users@gluster.org
Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Netboot / PXE-Boot from glusterfs?
Am 17.06.2010 12:08, schrieb Daniel Maher:
> On 06/17/2010 12:00 PM, Jan wrote:
>
>> I could easily setup netboot the
Am 17.06.2010 12:08, schrieb Daniel Maher:
On 06/17/2010 12:00 PM, Jan wrote:
I could easily setup netboot the traditional way using NFS, but I would
not have any failover/ha for that. As I understand, NFS on the gluster
storage platform (gsp) does not provide failover in case the first
server
On 06/17/2010 12:00 PM, Jan wrote:
I could easily setup netboot the traditional way using NFS, but I would
not have any failover/ha for that. As I understand, NFS on the gluster
storage platform (gsp) does not provide failover in case the first
server crashes. Failover-functionality for some dat
Am 17.06.2010 11:37, schrieb Daniel Maher:
On 06/17/2010 11:08 AM, Jan wrote:
- enables (diskless) Linux-Clients to boot over the network (debian,
some "real servers", some virtual ones)
Is this possible with glusterfs? Has anybody tried it? I understand it
is not that easy with a FUSE-filesyst
On 06/17/2010 11:08 AM, Jan wrote:
- enables (diskless) Linux-Clients to boot over the network (debian,
some "real servers", some virtual ones)
Is this possible with glusterfs? Has anybody tried it? I understand it
is not that easy with a FUSE-filesystem, and there does not seem to be a
out-of-t
Hello,
I am just looking around for a cheap, flexible and redundant
SAN-Solution and started reading about glusterfs.
my network is based on gigabit-ethernet and i have some 16 servers being
connected via infiniband.
After reading some documentation I have a few questions and hopefully
someone
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