From: pete@nomadlogic.org (Pete Wright)
Subject: [TUHS] RFS was: Re: UNIX of choice these days?
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 10:27:48 -0700 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: <20170929170246.GA65710@wopr>
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On 09/29/2017 10:02, Kurt H Maier wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 10:46:16AM -0600, Grant Taylor wrote:
>> 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.
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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2017-09-20 0:12 [TUHS] " Arthur Krewat
2017-09-20 0:26 ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-20 0:39 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-20 1:03 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-09-20 20:56 ` jason-tuhs
2017-09-23 9:17 ` Dario Niedermann
2017-09-23 9:36 ` Steve Mynott
2017-09-23 10:03 ` Dario Niedermann
2017-09-23 23:04 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-24 0:11 ` Random832
2017-09-24 1:19 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-24 13:46 ` Andy Kosela
2017-09-24 14:02 ` ron minnich
2017-09-24 14:06 ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-24 20:36 ` Kurt H Maier
2017-09-24 21:38 ` Bakul Shah
2017-09-24 23:36 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-24 23:50 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-09-25 0:03 ` Wesley Parish
2017-09-25 15:36 ` Tony Finch
2017-09-26 0:42 ` Wesley Parish
2017-09-26 9:54 ` Tony Finch
2017-09-26 14:41 ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-26 17:34 ` Bakul Shah
2017-09-26 17:39 ` Warner Losh
2017-09-26 18:26 ` Bakul Shah
2017-09-26 17:43 ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-26 19:44 ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-26 23:22 ` Wesley Parish
2017-09-25 0:51 ` Charles Anthony
2017-09-25 0:36 ` Dan Cross
2017-09-25 0:44 ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-25 0:56 ` Bakul Shah
2017-09-25 15:45 ` Tony Finch
2017-09-25 16:14 ` Bakul Shah
2017-09-25 7:41 ` Andy Kosela
2017-09-25 7:43 ` Cory Smelosky
2017-09-25 10:14 ` Andy Kosela
2017-09-25 9:58 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-09-25 11:14 ` Derek Fawcus
2017-09-25 11:48 ` Andrew Warkentin
2017-09-24 15:26 ` Christian Barthel
2017-09-24 17:33 ` Clem Cole
2017-09-24 17:33 ` Clem Cole
2017-09-24 17:51 ` [TUHS] RFS was: " Arthur Krewat
2017-09-24 19:54 ` Clem Cole
2017-09-24 21:59 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-09-24 22:08 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-09-24 23:52 ` Clem Cole
2017-09-27 8:44 ` arnold
2017-09-27 15:25 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-09-27 15:49 ` arnold
2017-09-27 17:38 ` Mantas Mikulėnas
2017-09-27 23:01 ` Kevin Bowling
2017-09-27 23:11 ` Clem Cole
2017-09-27 23:13 ` Kevin Bowling
2017-09-28 0:39 ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-28 3:19 ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-09-28 13:45 ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-28 17:12 ` Steve Johnson
2017-09-28 17:58 ` [TUHS] Bill Joy was: Re: RFS Forrest, Jon
2017-09-28 0:54 ` [TUHS] RFS was: Re: UNIX of choice these days? Dave Horsfall
2017-09-28 0:59 ` William Pechter
2017-09-28 13:49 ` arnold
2017-09-28 14:07 ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-28 14:28 ` arnold
2017-09-28 19:49 ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-28 20:00 ` Bakul Shah
2017-09-28 14:27 ` Clem Cole
2017-09-28 22:08 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-28 22:20 ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-29 2:23 ` Kevin Bowling
2017-09-29 8:59 ` Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
2017-09-29 14:20 ` Clem Cole
2017-09-29 16:46 ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-29 17:02 ` Kurt H Maier
2017-09-29 17:27 ` Pete Wright [this message]
2017-09-29 18:11 ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-29 18:47 ` Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
2017-09-29 15:22 ` George Ross
2017-09-29 18:40 ` Don Hopkins
2017-09-29 19:03 ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-29 21:24 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-09-29 22:11 ` Don Hopkins
2017-09-29 22:21 ` Don Hopkins
2017-09-29 19:19 ` Dan Cross
2017-09-29 19:22 ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-29 20:52 ` Jon Forrest
2017-09-23 23:00 ` [TUHS] " Dave Horsfall
2017-09-26 22:00 ` Christian Groessler
2017-09-20 4:42 ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-20 8:31 ` Mutiny
2017-09-20 9:15 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-09-20 16:58 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-09-20 17:05 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-09-20 17:53 ` Henry Bent
2017-09-20 18:12 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-09-20 18:33 ` Brad Spencer
2017-09-20 19:20 ` Henry Bent
2017-09-20 19:37 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-09-20 19:58 ` Jacob Ritorto
2017-09-20 22:29 ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-09-20 22:31 ` Warner Losh
2017-09-20 12:52 ` Chet Ramey
2017-09-20 13:33 ` Nemo
2017-09-20 15:39 ` Clem Cole
2017-09-20 15:42 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-09-20 16:58 ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-09-20 17:09 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-09-20 17:31 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-09-20 22:40 ` Steve Simon
2017-09-20 22:51 ` Erik Berls
2017-09-20 23:37 ` Robert Brockway
2017-09-21 1:47 ` Derrik Walker v2.0
2017-09-21 3:54 ` Gregg Levine
2017-09-21 14:33 ` Nicholas Chappell
2017-09-21 16:38 ` Mutiny
2017-09-21 16:42 ` gilbertmm
2017-09-21 18:30 ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-21 23:34 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-25 10:36 ` Thomas Kellar
2017-09-28 12:53 [TUHS] RFS was: " Noel Chiappa
2017-09-28 14:09 ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-09-28 14:35 ` Clem Cole
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2017-09-28 14:08 ` David
2017-09-28 17:22 ` Pete Wright
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