[SSI-users] Re: [SSI-devel] Root-System auf NAS

[Brian J. W. <Bri...@hp...>]

Andreas Roos wrote:
>> It's also possible that you could NFS mount your root. This would also 
>> require hacking around in the initrd, and unless your root is 
>> read-only, there will be no coherency guarantees between nodes (i.e., 
>> a process could see an older version of its open file after migrating). 
> 
> Wouldn't it be possible that if the root node mount the NFS it provide 
> the root tree to all the other nodes like it is when an other lokal fs 
> is mounted as root?

This would be true if OpenSSI's CFS (cluster file system) could stack 
correctly over NFS, but David ran into some complications with this.

> Nevertheless I will look at the readme. That you. I 
> didn't thought of Lustre as a NAS solution. Thank you for your answer.

No problem.

Brian