From owner-freebsd-cluster Wed Dec 11 14:34:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4318137B401 for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 14:34:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from vps.vitalit.com (vps.vitalit.com [64.105.194.69]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ABF943E4A for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 14:34:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from car@vitalit.com) Received: from LAPTOP (gso167-138-145.triad.rr.com [24.167.138.145]) by vps.vitalit.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id gBBMY9hQ046436 for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 17:34:09 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from car@vitalit.com) Message-ID: <000c01c2a165$4d67c3d0$0301000a@LAPTOP> From: "Rouzer, Charles A (Chuck)" To: References: <200212112225.gBBMPi411534@splat.grant.org> Subject: Re: ssic-linux etc network configuration Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 17:33:12 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG They use a method of "overmounting". Meaning they use the linux-mount bind option (IIRC) to mount the nodes network configuration directory "on top" of the configuration directory expected by the init scripts. This will result in the node booting with the proper network configuration. Its kinda a strange work around but seems to work. Chuck > Anyone know about this "single image linux cluster"? How's that done? > It seems to me that there would need to be something local to each > box, minimally /etc, no? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message