[TUHS] RFS was: Re: UNIX of choice these days?

[Grant Taylor]

On 09/29/2017 11:02 AM, Kurt H Maier wrote:
> I run linux workstations and a few supercomputers by PXE booting via 
> DHCP, serving a kernel and initrd over tftp, then having init download a 
> rootfs tarball, which gets extracted to a ramdisk.  switch_root(8) makes 
> it easy.  xCAT automates it.

Thank you for the high level overview.

I'll go do my homework.



-- 
Grant. . . .
unix || die

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