[Lustre-discuss] diskless booting & Debian

[Troy Benjegerdes]

I see a relatively blank diskless booting wiki page at

http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php?title=Diskless_Booting

Are there any details on this, other than "University of Colorado at
Boulder has performed interesting work?"

I have a couple of interests here.. 

1) compare lustre netboot to AFS netboot
2) install Lustre MDS & ODS servers on Debian booted from AFS.
3) understand enough about Lustre to know if netbooting a Lustre server
   from a lustre filesystem is completely wacked, or not.

FYI, I haven't tried it yet, but I'd be comfortable booting an AFS
server from a replicated AFS read-only volume as the root filesystem..
I believe I understand the failure modes of AFS well enough that this
would work.