Hi Mark, thanks for replying. In my mind, the basevol/guestvol concept replaces the whole cloning philosophy... so laying out the file system now is crucial. Since cloning the basevol won't be necessary, I'd imagine breaking these out into their own file systems may not be an issue...as long as they are R/O. Please bear with me (this is still very new to me), but do you put your file systems on their own minidisks and then group them together as one logical volume? Since the file systems will be R/O, is there any harm in placing these into an LVM (in the basevol/guestvol scheme)? Is there a way to easily determine the amount to allocate to each file system?
thanks again... Susan ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:19:36 -0600 From: Mark Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: BaseVol/GuestVol server for SLES9 >>> On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 4:50 PM, in message <OF8382A14B.6368F7C0-ON85257300.0070757D-85257300.00727751 @navyfederal.org>= , Susan Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:=20 -snip- > The only way I've built a Linux system is outlined in the Redbook " z/VM > and Linux on zSeries: From LPAR to Virtual Servers in Two Days". > Everything gets installed in / (root)... that is the only mount point > (aside from swap) defined. I've had discussions about this with Mike before. We don't agree much. = >From my perspective building a system with everything in one file system = is just asking for trouble later on. My standard build breaks out the = following into their own file system: /home /opt /srv (If you're going to be actually putting anything in there. = Alternately you can make /srv/ftp or /srv/www the mount points, but then = you're hiding the stuff that might have gotten installed into the = directories underneath /srv/www) /tmp /usr /var I believe the main reason Mike does it the way he does is that it = simplifies the cloning process/scripts. > For this basevol/guestvol setup, do I still only set up one partition on > the "base volume" with the mount point of "/"? Do I set up any mount > point on the "guest volume"? See above. > I presume everything gets installed on the base volume...just not sure > about the directories. The HOWTO documents the different > directories...but doesn't outline different mount points so I'm not sure > how to proceed. The doc instructs to "conduct a completely normal > installation, following SUSE's instruction". YaST makes it really easy to break out the various file systems, so I = would do that. I normally make my non-root file systems LVM logical = volumes. I'm not sure if that would mess up Bill's basevol/guestvol = scheme or not. (I haven't ever played with it, and I haven't re-read it = in quite a while.) Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
