[Linux-cluster] gnbd root device

[Jeremy Sanders]

Hi -

We've been trying to use gnbd for the root devices of diskless linux 
systems booted from the network. We're not using gfs. gnbd is used as a 
plain block device.

We use an initrd to start up the networking and connect to the gnbd 
server.

This seems to work fairly well, except the reconnection doesn't appear to 
work if the server is rebooted. The client hangs indefinitely. gnbd is run 
from a ram disk.

Does anyone know any fundamental reason why this should be a problem?

Does anyone have a working setup like this?

Thanks very much!

Jeremy

PS please CC me as I'm not on the mailing list

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