Subject: Re: [vserver] sharing /vserver
From: "Edward Capriolo" <edlinuxguru@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 13:21:27 -0400

I do not need the quota capabilities built into vserver. I plan on
giving each vserver its own logical volume. I do not see why that
volume could not be on a gluster FS. I have not tried yet.

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 6:18 AM, Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 11:15:10AM +0200, Oliver Welter wrote:
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>> Hi
>>
>> ADNET Ghislain schrieb:
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>> > I wanted to share my  /vserver between a bunch of host to be able to run
>> > a vserver from any host (not launch one on several host at the same time
>> > ). the goal is to use unification on all the vservers also.
>> >
>> > I have a SAN setup so how do you handle this to have the best
>> > performances ? Use a simple NFS server, a ocfs2 partition shared on all
>> > the nodes, a glusterfs one ?
>> >
>> Just to put an idea - I "share" my guest rootfs readonly simply by
>> having an rsync between the boxes on updates, which occure only if I
>> patch/update a server. You might even automate this using inotify. The
>> guest data is pulled in by an extra replicated disk - as I have only
>> two nodes, I use drbd, but you can use any other clusterfs here too.
>> So you do not need to find a fs that supports unification.
>
> depending on _how_ you share the 'root fs' it might
> destroy the benefit of unification ...
>
> I'd be interested in the output of 'stat /bin/bash'
> (assuming that /bin/bash is shared) for two guests
> on the same host
>
> best,
> Herbert
>
>> Oliver
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