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> They had 1U servers full of boards connected to a backplane (or so it seems) [1], but the storage was shared and centralized in a SAN. This bit was pretty ho
by naniwaduni 4y ago
> They had 1U servers full of boards connected to a backplane (or so it seems) [1], but the storage was shared and centralized in a SAN.
This bit was pretty horrific and could seriously cramp your style trying to do things with those servers, too; you had to boot to a provided kernel so they could start up an nbd-client in early boot, which for extra fun you could accidentally kill while the machine was booted, which would probably force a power cycle.
- tecleandor 4y agoOh, I remember, that was a mess. IIRC there were only certain kernels available and you couldn't build modules (or at least not easily). I think I had problems to enable modules for filesystems or Docker or something like that.