[Gluster-devel] Diskless booting to glusterfs

[gordan at bobich.net]

On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Mickey Mazarick wrote:

> We've had some success booting to gluster on a diskless server. The process 
> may be hard to make generic but currently we have it working over bonded NICs 
> or bonded infiniband ports. It does result in a very bloated 8 meg initrd and 
> chrooting to a gluster mount.
> We started with the DRBL setup which is a great launching off point. It is 
> the easiest way of building a custom initrd.
>
> The our scripts are system dependent but the files in the initrd are listed 
> below.
>
> Let me know if anyone is interested in a more complete howto and I'll see if 
> I can paste the important part of our scripts to the group. For now I think 
> if anyone wants this kind of setup you will need to customize your own initrd 
> and init script for a specific cluster.

That would be interesting to see, since I'm planning to add GlusterFS 
support to the Open Shared Root project.

Gordan