We've been running linux clusters like this for years and have recently released the software for doing it. The software is called oneSIS (http://onesis.sourceforge.net/). This does mostly everything it looks like the fedora stateless project aims at doing: - Read-only root NFS - bit-for-bit identical root filesystem - local disk cache (if desired) - fine-grained control of independent node/role behavior - mkinitrd (only better, IMHO)
However, it supports more than Fedora. Currently supported are redhat,fedora,suse,gentoo,and debian.
I've kept it pretty quiet so far, but I guess now might be the time to go public.
The lustre project (www.lustre.org) is supposedly going to be the end all/be all of distributed parallel file systems, but I believe it is still fairly unstable and not ready for production use. In the meanwhile, the best one out there is PVFS(www.parl.clemson.edu/pvfs/). Fat chance trying to find Windows clients, but you can always re-export it with Samba.
How can SCO attempt to claim IP over software whose components are all made by GNU Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix....well, you get the point.
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We've been running linux clusters like this for years and have recently released the software for doing it. The software is called oneSIS (http://onesis.sourceforge.net/). This does mostly everything it looks like the fedora stateless project aims at doing:
- Read-only root NFS
- bit-for-bit identical root filesystem
- local disk cache (if desired)
- fine-grained control of independent node/role behavior
- mkinitrd (only better, IMHO)
However, it supports more than Fedora. Currently supported are redhat,fedora,suse,gentoo,and debian.
I've kept it pretty quiet so far, but I guess now might be the time to go public.
The lustre project (www.lustre.org) is supposedly going to be the end all/be all of distributed parallel file systems, but I believe it is still fairly unstable and not ready for production use. In the meanwhile, the best one out there is PVFS(www.parl.clemson.edu/pvfs/). Fat chance trying to find Windows clients, but you can always re-export it with Samba.
How can SCO attempt to claim IP over software whose components are all made by GNU Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix....well, you get the point.
please don't put more people in jail!