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From: "Francisco J Ballesteros" <nemo@lsub.org>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: [sources] 20070410: % cat >/sys/lib/dist/changes/1176262206.1.txt << EOF
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:50:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8ccc8ba40704121150j49229197xe64b4d45be3f8042@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0da5bd5d35e4a66cfbb9fefbca318e3f@coraid.com>

We have not 1000, but about 200 terminals for students.
We use a script to generate pxe files from ndb entries. Not std, I admit,
but works well. In the end, we even forgot about /cfg/pxe.


On 4/12/07, erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com> wrote:
> perhaps for a cluster, a fileserver that can construct the proper
> configuration from the mac address (or whatever you wish)
> would be a slick way to go.  this would be very doable with ndb.
>
> - erik
>
> On Thu Apr 12 14:25:03 EDT 2007, rminnich@gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > what's interesting about this file per node config stuff:
> > 1. small sites don't need it
> > 2. for big sites, it's just not practical at all. File per node on
> > 1024 or more nodes? it just won't go. And 1024 is not a lot.
> > 3. For medium sites, it's kind of ok, I guess.
>
>


  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-12 18:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <5247962e2f1f11c9b374c57d9a9a71db@cat-v.org>
2007-04-12 15:14 ` Uriel
2007-04-12 15:32   ` Devon H. O'Dell
2007-04-12 15:48     ` erik quanstrom
2007-04-12 16:03       ` Devon H. O'Dell
2007-04-12 16:05       ` Russ Cox
2007-04-12 15:56     ` Uriel
2007-04-12 16:08       ` Devon H. O'Dell
2007-04-12 17:42         ` [9fans] Re: [sources] 20070410: % cat geoff
2007-04-12 18:00           ` Anthony Sorace
2007-04-12 18:16             ` Russ Cox
2007-04-12 18:57               ` Anthony Sorace
2007-04-13  4:04           ` Lucio De Re
2007-04-13  4:58             ` geoff
2007-04-12 18:25       ` [9fans] Re: [sources] 20070410: % cat >/sys/lib/dist/changes/1176262206.1.txt << EOF ron minnich
2007-04-12 18:38         ` [9fans] Re: [sources] 20070410: % cat geoff
2007-04-12 18:43           ` Devon H. O'Dell
2007-04-12 18:40         ` [9fans] Re: [sources] 20070410: % cat >/sys/lib/dist/changes/1176262206.1.txt << EOF erik quanstrom
2007-04-12 18:50           ` Francisco J Ballesteros [this message]
2007-04-12 18:41         ` Russ Cox
2007-04-13  4:18           ` [9fans] Re: [sources] 20070410: % cat Lucio De Re
2007-04-13  4:59             ` geoff
2007-04-12 18:48         ` [9fans] Re: [sources] 20070410: % cat >/sys/lib/dist/changes/1176262206.1.txt << EOF andrey mirtchovski

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