[Infrastructures] Jumpstart on AFS?

[asterr]

I believe all you need on the local subnet is rarpd and bootparamd.  The tftp 
server and nfs server can be accessed through a router.  So, the only real
benefit would be if you stored the /etc/ethers and /etc/bootparams in AFS.

Either way, you still need a host providing the required broadcast based
services on each subnet.  Network traffic might be reduced slightly due
to AFS caching, depending on how often you do a jumpstart build.

However, jumpstart with AFS requires use of an NFS->AFS translation daemon,
since jumpstart requires NFS.  I forget the name of the daemon that shipped
with transarc AFS, and am not sure if similar functionality is available
in OpenAFS.

-Aaron

On Thu, 5 May 2005, Craig Cook wrote:

> There was some discussion back in March about AFS and radmind.  From what I can see you need an OS installed before you can use Radmind.
> 
> One suggestion was to run radmind off an afs share for increased availability.
> 
> Can this idea be stretched to include Solaris Jumpstart?  One limitation with jumpstart is you need a boot server on the same subnet as the box you are trying to build.  If jumpstart itself was put on an AFS share you could effectively have a jumpstart server on each subnet that you needed... (or is that a bad idea)
> 
> Has anyone done something like this? 
> 
> eg. Jumpstart new solaris box
> Install radmind client
> radmind then installs cfengine client/afs client/patches/whatever for you...
> 
> Craig Cook
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