[Linux-cluster] Alternative? Diskless Shared-Root GFS/Cluster

isplist at logicore.net isplist at logicore.net
Wed Jan 31 21:13:14 UTC 2007


Just seems to be the future of things. I think this needs to be built into 
RH's GFS cluster... in a SIMPLE forward moving manner :). 

Then we could all claim to be GREEN too by saving power and well, other stuff.

Mike


> Well, you can do SAN-boot only, of course.
> Activate the BIOS in your HBA(s) and install on the SAN.
> Might be a bit tricky, depending on your actual hardware, but it certainly
> works (with some tricks).
> Qlogic-cards need the QLA-failover option in the driver (deprecated in the
> kernel.org vanilla driver, but the qlogic.com driver still does it).
> I think I read the either RHEL5 or RHEL4U5 will enable DM-multipathing for
> the boot-partition.
> 
> 
> cheers,
> Rainer







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