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From: bonnetf@apo.esiee.fr (bonnet-franck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Diskless boot control
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Date: 13 Feb 91 15:59:47 GMT
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Hi,

I have a problem with diskless nodes.

Here we have about 100 nodes and only 40 disked nodes,
very often some students reboot the diskless nodes anywhere
on the ring with the "DI N XXXX" command. 

This is not good because we have 3 ( 10.1/2/3) versions of DOMAIN_OS
and some softwares are not running under any versions ( eg : MENTOR GRAPHICS )
this also create a lot of /sys/node_data.xxxx for nothing.

In a word we want to CONTROL on which disked node a diskless node MUST boot.

Does somebody has done this before ?

I think to a similar mechanism that is controlling "crp" with the 
/sys/node_data/spm_control file.

This would be smart.

Thanks by advance for any help !

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