# Diskless system (简体中文)

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From Wikipedia:Diskless node

  A diskless node (or diskless workstation) is a workstation or personal computer without disk drives, which employs network booting to load its operating system from a server.

## 配置服务

首先,我们必须安装以下组件:

- A DHCP server to assign IP addresses to our diskless nodes.
- A TFTP server to transfer the boot image (a requirement of all PXE option roms).
- A form of network storage (NFS or NBD) to export the Arch installation to the diskless node.

Note: dnsmasq is capable of simultaneously acting as both DHCP and TFTP server. For more information, see the dnsmasq article.

### DHCP

安装ISC dhcp 并配置它:

    /etc/dhcpd.conf

    allow booting;
    allow bootp;

    authoritative;

    option domain-name-servers 10.0.0.1;

    option architecture code 93 = unsigned integer 16;

    group {
        next-server 10.0.0.1;

        if option architecture = 00:07 {
            filename "/grub/x86_64-efi/core.efi";
        } else {
            filename "/grub/i386-pc/core.0";
        }

        subnet 10.0.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
            option routers 10.0.0.1;
            range 10.0.0.128 10.0.0.254;
        }
    }

Note: `next-server` should be the address of the TFTP server; everything else should be changed to match your network

RFC 4578 defines the "Client System Architecture Type" dhcp option. In the above configuration, if the PXE client requests an x86_64-efi binary (type 0x7), we appropriately give them one, otherwise falling back to the legacy binary. This allows both UEFI and legacy BIOS clients to boot simultaneously on the same network segment.

Start ISC DHCP systemd service.

### TFTP

The TFTP server will be used to transfer the bootloader, kernel, and initramfs to the client.

Set the TFTP root to `/srv/arch/boot`. See Tftpd server for installation and configuration.

### 网络存储

The primary difference between using NFS and NBD is while with both you can in fact have multiple clients using the same installation, with NBD (by the nature of manipulating a filesystem directly) you will need to use the `copyonwrite` mode to do so, which ends up discarding all writes on client disconnect. In some situations however, this might be highly desirable.

#### NFS

Install nfs-utils on the server.

You will need to add the root of your Arch installation to your NFS exports:

    /etc/exports

    /srv       *(rw,fsid=0,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check)
    /srv/arch  *(rw,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check)

Next, start NFS services: `rpc-idmapd` `rpc-mountd`.

#### NBD

安装nbd 并配置它.

    # vim /etc/nbd-server/config

    [generic]
        user = nbd
        group = nbd
    [arch]
        exportname = /srv/arch.img
        copyonwrite = false

Note: Set `copyonwrite` to true if you want to have multiple clients using the same NBD share simultaneously; refer to `man 5 nbd-server` for more details.

Start `nbd` systemd service.

## 安装客户端

Next we will create a full Arch Linux installation in a subdirectory on the server. During boot, the diskless client will get an IP address from the DHCP server, then boot from the host using PXE and mount this installation as its root.

### 启动目录

Create a sparse file of at least 1 gigabyte, and create a btrfs filesystem on it (you can of course also use a real block device or LVM if you so desire).

    # truncate -s 1G /srv/arch.img
    # mkfs.btrfs /srv/arch.img
    # export root=/srv/arch
    # mkdir -p "$root"
    # mount -o loop,discard,compress=lzo /srv/arch.img "$root"

Note: Creating a separate filesystem is required for NBD but optional for NFS and can be skipped/ignored.

### 引导安装

安装devtools 和 arch-install-scripts,并运行`mkarchroot`.

    # pacstrap -d "$root" base mkinitcpio-nfs-utils nfs-utils

Note: In all cases mkinitcpio-nfs-utils is still required. `ipconfig` used in early-boot is provided only by the latter.

Now the initramfs needs to be constructed.

#### NFS

Trivial modifications to the `net` hook are required in order for NFSv4 mounting to work (not supported by `nfsmount`--the default for the `net` hook).

    # sed s/nfsmount/mount.nfs4/ "$root/usr/lib/initcpio/hooks/net" > "$root/usr/lib/initcpio/hooks/net_nfs4"
    # cp $root/usr/lib/initcpio/install/net{,_nfs4}

The copy of `net` is unfortunately needed so it does not get overwritten when mkinitcpio-nfs-utils is updated on the client installation.

Edit `$root/etc/mkinitcpio.conf` and add `nfsv4` to `MODULES`, `net_nfs4` to `HOOKS`, and `/usr/bin/mount.nfs4` to `BINARIES`.

Next, we chroot our installation and run mkinitcpio:

    # arch-chroot "$root" mkinitcpio -p linux

#### NBD

The mkinitcpio-nbdAUR package needs to be installed on the client. Build it with makepkg and install it:

    # pacman --root "$root" --dbpath "$root/var/lib/pacman" -U mkinitcpio-nbd-0.4-1-any.pkg.tar.xz

You will then need to append `nbd` to your `HOOKS` array after `net`; `net` will configure your networking for you, but not attempt a NFS mount if `nfsroot` is not specified in the kernel line.

## 配置客户端

In addition to the setup mentioned here, you should also set up your hostname, timezone, locale, and keymap, and follow any other relevant parts of the Installation guide.

### 引导

#### GRUB

This article or section is a candidate for merging with GRUB.

Notes: (Discuss in Talk:Diskless system (简体中文)#)

Though poorly documented, GRUB supports being loaded via PXE.

    # pacman --root "$root" --dbpath "$root/var/lib/pacman" -S grub

Create a grub prefix on the target installation for both architectures using `grub-mknetdir`.

    # arch-chroot "$root" grub-mknetdir --net-directory=/boot --subdir=grub

Luckily for us, grub-mknetdir creates prefixes for all currently compiled/installed targets, and the grub maintainers were nice enough to give us both in the same package, thus grub-mknetdir only needs to be run once.

Now we create a trivial GRUB configuration:

    # vim "$root/boot/grub/grub.cfg"

    menuentry "Arch Linux" {
        linux /vmlinuz-linux quiet add_efi_memmap ip=:::::eth0:dhcp nfsroot=10.0.0.1:/arch
        initrd /initramfs-linux.img
    }

GRUB dark-magic will `set root=(tftp,10.0.0.1)` automatically, so that the kernel and initramfs are transferred via TFTP without any additional configuration, though you might want to set it explicitly if you have any other non-tftp menuentries.

Note: Modify your kernel line as-necessary, refer to Pxelinux for NBD-related options

#### Pxelinux

Pxelinux is provided by syslinux, see here for detail.

### Additional mountpoints

#### NBD root

In late boot, you will want to switch your root filesystem mount to both `rw`, and enable `compress=lzo`, for much improved disk performance in comparison to NFS.

    # vim "$root/etc/fstab"

    /dev/nbd0  /  btrfs  rw,noatime,discard,compress=lzo  0 0

#### Program state directories

The factual accuracy of this article or section is disputed.

Reason: systemd does not use persistent logging by default when /var/log/journal is in tmpfs and/or does not exist (Discuss in Talk:Diskless system (简体中文)#)

You could mount `/var/log`, for example, as tmpfs so that logs from multiple hosts do not mix unpredictably, and do the same with `/var/spool/cups`, so the 20 instances of cups using the same spool do not fight with each other and make 1,498 print jobs and eat an entire ream of paper (or worse: toner cartridge) overnight.

    # vim "$root/etc/fstab"

    tmpfs   /var/log        tmpfs     nodev,nosuid    0 0
    tmpfs   /var/spool/cups tmpfs     nodev,nosuid    0 0

It would be best to configure software that has some sort of state/database to use unique state/database storage directories for each host. If you wanted to run puppet, for example, you could simply use the `%H` specifier in the puppet unit file:

    # vim "$root/etc/systemd/system/puppetagent.service"

    [Unit]
    Description=Puppet agent
    Wants=basic.target
    After=basic.target network.target

    [Service]
    Type=forking
    PIDFile=/run/puppet/agent.pid
    ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/install -d -o puppet -m 755 /run/puppet
    ExecStart=/usr/bin/puppet agent --vardir=/var/lib/puppet-%H --ssldir=/etc/puppet/ssl-%H

    [Install]
    WantedBy=multi-user.target

Puppet-agent creates vardir and ssldir if they do not exist.

If neither of these approaches are appropriate, the last sane option would be to create a systemd generator that creates a mount unit specific to the current host (specifiers are not allowed in mount units, unfortunately).

## 引导客户端

### NBD

The factual accuracy of this article or section is disputed.

Reason: When using COW on the server, the clients all effectively have read-only mounts of the original filesystem; it should theoretically be safe to do a read-write mount on the NBD server (Discuss in Talk:Diskless system (简体中文)#)

If you are using NBD, you will need to umount the `arch.img` before/while you boot your client.

This makes things particularly interesting when it comes to kernel updates. You cannot have your client filesystem mounted while you are booting a client, but that also means you need to use a kernel separate from your client filesystem in order to build it.

You will need to first copy `$root/boot` from the client installation to your tftp root (i.e. `/srv/boot`).

    # cp -r "$root/boot" /srv/boot

You will then need to umount `$root` before you start the client.

    # umount "$root"

Note: To update the kernel in this setup, you either need to mount `/srv/boot` using NFS in fstab on the client (prior to doing the kernel update) or mount your client filesystem after the client has disconnected from NBD

## 参阅

- kernel.org: Mounting the root filesystem via NFS (nfsroot)
- syslinux.org: pxelinux FAQ

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