Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 7 Dec 2001 08:06:03 -0800 | | From | Larry McVoy <> | | Subject | Re: SMP/cc Cluster description |
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> How about creating one node as "master" and write a "cluster network > filesystem" which uses shared memory as its "network layer".
Right.
> Then boot all other nodes diskless from these cluster network > filesystems.
Wrong. Give each node its own private boot fs. Then mount /data.
> You can still have shared mmap (which I believe is Larry's toy point) > between the nodes but you avoid all of the filesystem locking issues, > because you're going over (a hopefully superfast) memory network > filesystem.
There is no network, unless you consider the memory interconnect a network (I think the hardware guys would raise their eyebrows at that name).
> What I don't like about the approach is the fact that all nodes should > share the same file system. One (at least IMHO) does not want this for > at least /etc.
Read through my other postings, I said that things are private by default. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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