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Re: packages for cluster nodes
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John Hearns <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 10 Mar 2006 07:03:06 +0000
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On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 07:22 -0600, Miles O'Neal wrote:

> 
> I'm with John and Paul on this.  At one time
> we tried doing partial installs (before hard
> drives were commodity items).  Eventually we
> gave up; it wasn't worth the effort and we
> kept finding unexpected dependancies after
> testing and deployment.

At the other end of the spectrum I would advise against 'everything'
installs. Been there, done that at a customers request for a 64 node V20
cluster. It takes a looooongggg time.

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