[Arm-dev] a plague farm ?

[Gordan Bobic]

On 2015-04-17 11:19, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
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> On 17/04/15 11:35, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>> On 04/15/2015 09:28 AM, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
>>> Hmm, online.net images aren't standard ones, so not sure if we
>>> can upload ours and get those running there. At the moment, those
>>> nodes have fedora-21-based images, but modified to suit the
>>> architecture : different kernel, also using nbd devices accross
>>> the network (nothing "local") OTOH, I guess we can just use those
>>> ones, as plague-{server,client} nodes there. (keep in mind that
>>> only one node has a public IP, while the remaining ones have
>>> 10.x.x.x, but reachable from node1)
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>> I tried to email the online.net guys to see if they can come join
>> this list, but havent had a response - do you want to try and reach
>> out see if they might consider using the image we have here from
>> Howard ? if not, do we want to try and just hammer on with the f21
>> image in place there now?
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> I'll try to ping them, but as already said, they have a specific
> image, and different kernel, that uses nbd devices as root device.

I have to say using NDB seems... unusual. I haven't seen NDB
used in a serious setup in quite a while. Are there performance
(or any other) benefits from doing so, and are they documented
anywhere?

Gordan