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I would love to see this feature added to CentOS/RHEL. In the past, we used NFS Diskless which is anything but diskless. Hacking together an initrd that loads
by LinuxBender 7y ago
I would love to see this feature added to CentOS/RHEL. In the past, we used NFS Diskless which is anything but diskless. Hacking together an initrd that loads everything into ram is, well, hacky. To have a dracut function or a toggle to enable this would be great for lightweight deployments, testing, labs, vagrant, etc... I'm sure that RHEL must have been contemplating it because there is /etc/sysconfig/readonly-root unless that was just a better way to do NFS diskless...
- jabl 7y agoWe use warewulf (via openhpc) for diskless centos 7 compute nodes at work. Basically initramfs creates a tmpfs, downloads the OS image to it, switches root to it.
- LinuxBender 7y agoOh nice, I thought it was also using NFS diskless. I will take a look at it. Thankyou!