[Techtalk] netbooting Linux raid

[Gayathri Swaminathan]

Heya Carla:

Netboot as in something like this: http://www.freenas.org/ ,
http://www.openfiler.com/, NASLite or am I not interpreting your question
correctly.

In the past FreeNAS/ OpenFiler has bailed me a few times when there was a
need for setting up a large file share ( short -term projects), backup
server, code repository, media store solution.

hth,
Gayathri

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Carla Schroder <carla at bratgrrl.com> wrote:

> Hiya smart peoples,
>
> Can you netboot a Linux RAID array? Suppose you have a four-disk RAID
> array
> (plus LVM of course), and you have gobs of RAM, so you want the RAID array
> to
> be 100% data storage. No root filesystem, no /boot, no swap. Can you do
> this?
> Should you do this? It might not be practical for small networks, since
> you
> need a bootserver, but I'm thinking it could be useful for larger shops.
>
> thanks!
> Carla
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