29 Sep
2017
29 Sep
'17
11:27 p.m.
On 09/29/2017 10:02, Kurt H Maier wrote:
On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 10:46:16AM -0600, Grant Taylor
wrote:
I had a similar setup at a large special effects studio I used to work at.
We were trying solve NFSv3 contention issues - especially with large
directory tree's creating tons of metadata requests on Linux (issue with
client side caching IIRC) so we experimented with using UnionFS to allow
for writes to pass-through to local disk. It was mostly intermediary
data and initial testing was promising, in that it alleviated the load
on our filers and seemed to speed up some rendering processes.
I had left before it made it to wide deployment - but it is something
I've kept in my toolbox since then as an option.
-pete
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Pete Wright
pete(a)nomadlogic.org
@nomadlogicLA
I am guessing dhcp and / or bootp, combined with
tftp for kernel
image, and NFS for root.
I run linux workstations and a few supercomputers by PXE booting via
DHCP, serving a kernel and initrd over tftp, then having init download a
rootfs tarball, which gets extracted to a ramdisk. switch_root(8) makes
it easy. xCAT automates it.