We have had issues with uploading images to boss where they are then written
across NFS to ops. That seems to be a network hop too far on CloudLab Utah
where we have a 10Gb control network. We get occasional transcient timeouts
from somewhere in the TCP code. With the convoluted path through real and
virtual NICs, some with offloading, some without, packets wind up getting
out of order and someone gets far enough behind to cause problems.

So we work around it.

If IMAGEUPLOADTOFS is defined in the defs-* file, we will run a frisbee
master server on the fs (ops) node and the image creation path directs the
nodes to use that server. There is a new hack configuration for the master
server "upload-only" which is extremely specific to ops: it validates the
upload with the boss master server and, if allowed, fires up an upload
server for the client to talk to. The image will thus be directly uploaded
to the local (ZFS) /proj or /groups filesystems on ops. Thi...