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High Performance Diskless Linux At AX-Div, LLNL

Posted by timothy on from the four-letter-acronym dept.

Lee Busby writes "As a co-author, I am biased, but I think that our recent paper describing a diskless Linux deployment at Lawrence Livermore National Lab (PDF)may be of general interest. It's a little different than most diskless systems -- simpler, and designed to be high performance."

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  1. NFS? by ghostlibrary · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This has some nice configuration management ideas. Given that a linux distribution is small, cloning them for each diskless is a neat approach to balance centralized management versus changing hardware.

    That said... NFS is woefully insecure so, if subversion by an insider is a problem (as it would be with, say, disk workstations), NFS may not be the best choice for handling the disk management.

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