On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Mickey Mazarick wrote:
We've had some success booting to gluster on a diskless server. The process
may be hard to make generic but currently we have it working over bonded NICs
or bonded infiniband ports. It does result in a very bloated 8 meg initrd and
chrooting to a gluster mount.
We started with the DRBL setup which is a great launching off point. It is
the easiest way of building a custom initrd.
The our scripts are system dependent but the files in the initrd are listed
below.
Let me know if anyone is interested in a more complete howto and I'll see if
I can paste the important part of our scripts to the group. For now I think
if anyone wants this kind of setup you will need to customize your own initrd
and init script for a specific cluster.
That would be interesting to see, since I'm planning to add GlusterFS
support to the Open Shared Root project.
Gordan
