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This is a really insanely cool idea, and one I've never considered.
Also network and union mounting /sys may be worthwhile ...
Thanks Erik. I'm definitely going to look into this more closely.
- -- Pat
Erik N Johnson wrote:
> In an attempt to bring things back on topic for Scott, and everybody
> else who is supposed to keep e-mail work related (sorry guys!) I would
> like to point out a major feature of Linux that people seem to remain
> unaware of. In Linux you can get virtually any piece of kernel
> information from the vfs through the novel /proc filesystem. I have
> discussed this and other ports from the Plan 9 From Bell Labs
> operating system to Linux (especially the 9p kernel module.) No other
> operating system has, to the best of my knowledge, any attempt at
> these features. What's really great about this is that for a z/Linux
> farm you can easily use 9p to create a single virtual host whch has a
> /mnt all full of:
> /mnt
> /host1/proc
> /host2/proc
> ...
> /hostN/proc
>
> then a perl (or shell or python) script ( or ANY filesystem-aware
> program, which is pretty open-ended) can easily do:
>
> foreach host in hosts {
> displayRelevantInfo( /mnt/host/proc);
> }
>
> where hosts is the full set of Linux guests.
>
> Voila, pure Linux NOC w/out nasty, insecure SNMP. With HiperSocket
> this is going to be VERY fast. It DOES require a custom kernel on the
> virtual host which is serving as the NOC, as 9p is a kernel module.
>
> This is the type of thing that a GPL-compatible license brings to your OS.
>
> Erik Johnson
>
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