Re: Clustering on Linux Was: "Re: New dad (again).."

Andreas Jellinghaus (aj@dungeon.inka.de)
Wed, 29 Apr 1998 11:40:39 +0200

>NT clusters (from a years ago Byte article comparing Netware and NT) are
>(or at least were then) something like workgroups, or netbeui subnets,
>where a group of workstations (I think 8-10 was the original limit on
>cluster size) with local connections to a single NT Adv Server machine
>were recognized as a "cluster", with common access rights and local file
>sharing, etc. They didn't have to go through NT RAS to access the server.

linux has this :
for example i'm booting > 50 machines with the same / as root directory
(via nfsroot). they all have the same confoguration (except ip number,
hostname, and some very few files like XF86Config). They share all
programs, data, security ...

This isn't a new thing, it was done years ago.
The only drawback is, nfs isn't fast. But i still hope 2.2 with knfsd
will solve that... or coda or something like that.

andreas

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