Re: [gentoo-dev] A few ideas...

[Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org>]

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On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 13:56:40 +0100
Christian Axelsson <smiler@lanil.mine.nu> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I was sitting and thinking of simplifying the process of having / (and
> maybe other partitions) running for a RAM-disk that can be stored on
> NFS, cdrom, and maybe even a harddrive (with encrypted fs).
> 
> I've never played around with ramdisks and I wonder how much that
> needs to be done to make a little shellscript for gentoo that copies
> down / and other selected partitions to a iso or something and
> configures the rest of the system to boot from that later on.
> Another problem might be updating the image, therefor it would be nice
> with a single command to rewrite the whole image :)
> 
> Anyone wanna help me on this as I have time and would like a feature
> like that on some of my computers.
> 
> As I said before, it would be nice to have it as a integrated feature
> of gentoo, making it alot easier to work with.
> 

Check out the Adelie cluster project at:

  http://www.cerca.umontreal.ca/hpc/en/projects/adelie/index.html

Support for that have been integrated, and they use diskless clusters
...


> -- 
> Christan Axelsson
> smiler@lanil.mine.nu
> 


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Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa


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