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On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 01:16:32AM -0700, Miles Egan wrote: |
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> I help manage a linux compute cluster of about 1500 nodes. We run |
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> Redhat. Gentoo isn't even an option without something like kickstart |
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> and binary package support as good as rpm's. |
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I have experience of running a slightly smaller cluster, and I have |
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tried Gentoo on them. however no matter what distribution I did find the |
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most effective way since the machines were homogenous was actual system |
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imaging. |
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If I want to reimage a machine, I just blast the MBR remotely, and then |
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we have them configured to netboot, and they netboot into a minimal |
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linux with some custom applications we wrote that do system imaging over |
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multicast on a fixed schedule. |
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