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Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM over IP network
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On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 01:29 -0500, Zac Slade wrote:
> On Monday 10 April 2006 11:33, Ming Zhang wrote:
> > or put all these disks in one box and let other boxes boot from iscsi
> > and use centralized ip storage.
> This is the most sensible thought.  It's almost like nfs root only a little 
> bit better.  They might need a CD burned that has a kernel and initramfs that 
> loads the kernel and modules then loads their rootfs via iSCSI.

no, u do not need a cd at all. 

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=14610082
http://groups.google.com/group/open-iscsi/browse_thread/thread/714c8d822df99285/fae407856ec7e744%23fae407856ec7e744

google it or check those iscsi lists, there are such info available.



> 
> Good idea Ming!