<div>Maxime,</div>
<div>Would it be feasible to use "ln" to create symbolic links to populate /tftproot/192.168.1.N, for each node N, from say /tftproot/generic ? </div>
<div>Peter<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 5:26 AM, Maxime Kinet <<a href="mailto:mkinet@ulb.ac.be">mkinet@ulb.ac.be</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div style="WORD-WRAP: break-word">Hi,
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<div>I'm setting up a cluster, made of diskless workstations, booting through NFS. For that purpose I created a copy of the node's filesystem in a /tftpboot directory. That is, I have a full filesytem for each single node : /tftpboot/192.168.1.1, /tftpboot/192.168.1.2, /tftpboot/192.168.1.3, etc. </div>
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<div>I know that there are several different options to make several clients mounting their filesystems, and that this one might not be the most efficient one, but I choosed that one just because I knew already how to do it. Now everything works fine, except that I would like to spare some diskspace on the master partition. Since each filesystem is around 500 Mb, I quickly reach more than 10Gb just for the /tftpboot directory. </div>
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<div>A quick solution I founded is to mount the largests directory (which are the same for each node) of the / (namely /lib and /var) from a separate common directory. Could this cause some problem in the way the node's are working? Is there any other easy/fast way to reduce the amount of data contained in the /tftpboot/192.168.1.* directories?</div>
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<div>I also heard about ClusterNFS which would do exactly what I need, but then I would have to start everything from the beggining and I want everything to work as soon as possible. </div>
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<div>Thanks a lot for answers/advices,</div><br>
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<div>Maxime Kinet</div>
<div>Université Libre de Bruxelles</div>
<div>Physique Statistique et Plasmas, CP 231</div>
<div>Campus Plaine - Boulevard du Triomphe,</div>
<div>1050 Bruxelles.</div>
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