"Stateless Linux" project

Roberto Peon grmoc at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 14 03:23:54 UTC 2004


It handles modifications to files, and not just wholesale replacement??

-R

On Monday 13 September 2004 11:22 pm, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 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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