(having said that...)
Hi there.
I'm thinking of building Lam/Mpi on diskless nodes.
The distro that I'm going to build on is one that I
will make myself (using LFS's book). Now, the
rootdirectory that I will be making will be working on
the RAMDISK of the nodes. Having small amount of ram (
alltho I could buy more I don't want to waste it) i
would like to make this root dir. so small as I can.
That means taking things that the nodes wont be
using.(ooo.. and I mean taking everthing that is
unnecessary to a machine with no keyboard and no
mouse). But ofcourse leaving gcc, binutils and glibc.
Before asking: Here's the plan.
I want to make the filesystem a ram filesystem(root
dir. on chip). So that means the compiling time would
be faster ( when having space on the ramdisk to
compile ). Putting unneeded stuff would make things go
wrong. But still there are some utils that should be
there to make
the machine work as it should. But those utils
woulden't be working when the machine is Compiling. So
at some point they become "unwanted software".
So after getting this, It came to me like this:'How
about building the most wanted software for to be
living on the Ram Disk of the node and the unwanted
software on the server.'.
So yeah -it's like saying- I will put the needed
software for lam nodes on the ramdisk because lam
needs them there(faster). And I will put the others on
NFS-Server because my Network Top. is slow.(slower)
That was the TAO.: No for the questions :p????:p
I was thinking of only putting gcc and glibc and
binutils and lam - required on ramdisk- But what
software should be there with the Lam ? :p
What should be on the server ? Would bash shell be a
good one to stand on the server or it's best to be on
the machine ? :p
What about networking, mounting utils , textutils ,
more on coreutils, the /dev directory? :p
Inonequestion : ?When lam is Working What Files And
Programs is it Using? --Not when it's starting --Not
when it finishs
There.
Oh and I'm a newbie:p haha!!
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