"Stateless Linux" project
John Hearns
john.hearns at clustervision.com
Tue Sep 14 14:48:38 UTC 2004
On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 15:31, Erik LaBianca wrote:
> I too am thrilled to see this happening. It's this sort of technology
> that has the potential to give linux a solid leg up on the competition
> for both the desktop and the server.
> 2. Configuration management. I've been trying to extract my
> configuration from running systems for a while now, but not really been
> entirely successful. Typically the list of files to "watch" gets
> unwieldy, or someone forgets to make the .orig file, or commit to cvs. I
> think ideally a configuration management system would integrate rpm (to
> know what files are config files) and cvs/subversion (to provide
> revision control) in such a way that you have revision controlled
> configuration files available off-system.
>
> In a truly stateless system, you could just export all the config files
> from CVS into the ramdisk on bootup.
http://quattor.web.cern.ch/quattor
http://www.lcfg.org
might help there.
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