Builders

[Mike McGrath]

On 10/27/06, Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I had a thought about the builders that i wanted to run by everyone.  it seems
> that the chroot exploded on hammer1  and as a result  some files got
> installed in the real filesystem not in the chroot. so as a way to help
> things in the future.  once we are done with analysis we will need to rebuild
> hammer1 So  what i want to do is install a xen host on hammer1  and actually
> have hammer1  a xen guest.  it would be the only guest on the system but  if
> the same thing happened again it would be a simple task to fix.  warren  to
> do this we would need a internal only ip for the xen host.
>
> so what id like to do as far as the xen guest goes.  and we should probably do
> this with all production xen guests.  is create a snapshot of the lvm volume
> once the system is up and running and ready.   so if  the chroot explodes
> again we put the snapshot in place  start the instance  and things are back
> in a matter of minutes.  we would have a pre-configured system ready to roll.
>
> thoughts? opinions? objections?
>

I'm kind of in the boat that we should just use large files and skip
the partition all together, that way its an scp or a cp away from
having another guest.

          -Mike