"Stateless Linux" project

Havoc Pennington hp at redhat.com
Tue Sep 14 03:22:58 UTC 2004


AFS has context-dependent symlinks that can also be used for this sort
of thing.

Havoc

On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 23:14 -0400, Roberto Peon wrote:
> I sure like the idea of an 'overlay' fs. =)
> -Roberto JP
> 
> 
> On Monday 13 September 2004 09:02 pm, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 01:04 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > > It looks very promising, and reminds in part of fai, the Debian
> > > installer with centralised (and CVS managed) host configuration. Could
> > > some parts of fai (like the class based configuration file repository)
> > > be taken over?
> >
> > Right, the difference in the stateless model is that you'd want to fetch
> > the config files at runtime and keep them somewhere transient, or assign
> > them to a central install rather than a particular computer.
> >
> > Havoc
> 
> 





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