this update is being done on lustre, again. i had grand visions of having the lustre nodes all doing netboot from the gateway, and grabbing the modules and stuff from nfs. unfortunately, if a client ran depmod over nfs, the gateway would oops/panic. and then it turns out that grub doesn't support milano's nic. but, i'm now storing users/groups + lustre config in ldap, which might be a plus.
phik and i tried playing hockey yesterday, but shortly into it i broke my stick. during that time, however, i seem to have brushed my leg against the same plant phik touched a week or so ago, and i now have an itchy/hurty spot on my leg. the new stick was not bad, but it seems like it's breaking a bit too fast. they did have some with no wood on the blade, and that might be the route to go despite the ugliness.
i have something i want to say about itms, but i hven't been able to phrase it well enough. i'll try again tomorrow.