Stateless Linux experience...
Mark McLoughlin
markmc at redhat.com
Thu Nov 18 07:44:04 UTC 2004
Hi,
On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 09:05 -0500, Mike Herrick wrote:
> > > 6) Because of the RAM problem above, I'm not sure that subsequent
> > > invocations of "stateless-snapshooter -n -p DemoSystem" actually
> > > worked as designed. When I execute "stateless-snapshooter -l", I get:
> > >
> > > Protosystems:
> > > DemoSystem
> > >
> > > But it doesn't say anything about snapshots. This makes me nervous.
> > > What should the output look like?
> >
> > Yeah, looks like there aren't any snapshots listed in LDAP.
> >
> > Are there snapshots in /srv/stateless/snapshots?
> >
> > Maybe use GQ (GUI LDAP client) to poke around in LDAP to see if any
> > record of the snapshots are being made?
>
> Part of the problem may be that I hadn't run 'stateless-servers -a'. Do I
> have to run this before or after taking a snapshot? What values do I give
> for nfs_path and rsync_path?
Yeah, I think you need to run it before taking the snapshot. Something
like this:
$> stateless-servers -a -n /srv/stateless/snapshots myserver.foo.net
(assuming you want the image served to stateless clients rather than
caching clients. Use -r for caching clients)
Cheers,
Mark.
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