Well, it's as stable as one person testing and rebuilding it can make it. You should expect a headache or two, but give it a try. I've pushed all the changes I made to the master branch of efs-utils already. One thing we haven't done (and there's someone working on this with me, whose name will remain secret until I've officially hired him :-P) is document how to get this up and running, so there are still some rough edges. Let me know if/when you get stuck, and I'll help you get over the hump.
Most important thing to understand: the boot.efs setup assumes you are building these VMs on a /24 network, and that all the hardcoded addresses the script needs are unused. This is because it's designed to be setup on VMs on a home network you own, or in our case, using something like VirtualBox, that let's you define private network local to the machine you're on (this is how we're doing this setup on MacOS X hosts). There are two docs, both of which are now a bit out of date, about setting this up, and I have some notes I can share with you if you going to use Debian. http://docs.openefs.org/efs-core-docs/DevGuide/DevEnv/Setup.html http://docs.openefs.org/efs-utils/vmware/efs_virtual_machine.html Going forward, I will be using Debian/Ubuntu for the core servers, and while the test suite will get run through all 5 supported platforms, I don't plan on using anything else for the core servers anymore. Debian has an especially small footprint, and since one of the things I'm doing with boot.efs its using it to test the procedures for adding efsservers and cells, that's an important parameter. Also, in the real-world EFS 3 environment I'm supporting, we're using RHEL and AIX, but Solaris/Sparc is getting dropped, so unless someone else maintains it, it will atrophy very, very quickly. Good luck, and have fun.... On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Steven Jenkins <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm looking at setting up an EFS 3 system very soon (this week or next > week at the latest), but I know you (i.e., Phil) said this week that > you're going to be making changes to boot.efs soon. Do you have an > ETA on when things will stabilize? > > I'm mostly looking at Ubuntu, but I can switch to RHEL/CentOS if > that's what you are targeting. > > Thanks, > Steven > _______________________________________________ > EFS-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.openefs.org/mailman/listinfo/efs-dev _______________________________________________ EFS-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.openefs.org/mailman/listinfo/efs-dev
