On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Alan Ackerman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Has anyone had any experience with building a stateless Linux on zSeries? > > Any words of wisdom? As long as you can step back from the particular implementation at hand, many of the installations I worked with already do this with Linux on z/VM. In such a case the Linux server "has no life of its own" and when something happens to the server, you take a fresh one from stock supply and personalize that for the particular task. The main point is that there is no application data kept on the server. The Stateless Linux project simplifies some systems management tasks within the restrictions of the platform. Because we have "virtualized hot-swap disks" we don't have the same restrictions, so our implementation may be a bit different. We do have other restrictions, like no excess resources because we share resources. So in the case of Linux on z/VM it makes sense to use disk space rather than transfer copies of the data each time you need it. Even though the data on the disk is not persistent. Rob ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
