On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 10:39:54 -0700, Robert Gresky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am trying to implement shared filesystems, so that multiple guests can > share one /bin and /sbin for example. I am using the redbook > SG24-6824-00 (Large Scale Linux Deployment) as a guide, but with mixed > success. I have used techniques like that to build an army of penguins to do benchmarks and measure scalabilty. But I find that in real life the Linux guests end up being less identical, and I expect you will see that your time is more valuable than the disk space that you can save with this. Software management is painful when only part of the code is shared and some is not (I understand that Levanta have addressed some of these issues and actually got this to work well). But I reserve the right to change my mind when we include z/VM DCSS support (i.e. xip2) in the picture. In that case you not only save disk space, but also reduce the footprint of the virtual machine. And that is good. -- Rob van der Heij rvdheij @ gmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
