"Stateless Linux" project

[John Hearns]

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.