[noctool-devel] compact configurations for identical machines

[Jim Prewett]

Hello,

I was thinking about what a bear it will be to have to specify each of my 
compute node systems in my clusters individually.

I was thinking about syntax such as the following that would create an 
equipment object for each of 256 hosts named l001 through l256.

(machine-cluster "LosLobos" linux-host
  (user "download")
  (disks
   (disk "/dev/sda1" 80 95))
  (machinerange "l001-l256"))

What do y'all think?  Is there a better way to do this?  Something like 
this would reduce the size of my shop's config file a couple orders of 
magnitude - in turn, I'd screw things up accordingly less often :)

Jim

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