On 10 Dec 2010, at 00:55, Nigel Kersten <ni...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Brice Figureau > <brice-pup...@daysofwonder.com> wrote: >> On 09/12/10 21:36, Chris C wrote: >>> I planned on moving to Passenger very soon. >>> >>> What about the file server? Is there any worth in moving from >>> nfs/autofs to puppet fileserver? >> >> The only reason I can see is security, access control and auditing. >> Every access is protected through SSL, can be logged and passes through >> the authorization layer (ie fileserver.conf). > > I think there's another big benefit to using the internal fileserver. > > Your manifest and file source changes are synchronized in lock-step. > > When you're using anything else with it's own replication periods, you > can end up with frustrating situations where a manifest has updated > but a file hasn't. You get this anyway unless you have the ability to update your entire checkout atomically. It's actually even worse because based on the typical update-a-checkout pattern that people use you can't even be guaranteed the you get a sane set of manifests compiled. Worse the config version feature is unaware of file server changes making it pointless as an aid to almost anything that would matter. > > > > >> In terms of performance I don't think it would have any impact (provided >> you run 2.6) on your master and client (but that mostly depends on your >> access patterns). And you can still use file content offloading (see one >> of my blog post for more information). >> -- >> Brice Figureau >> My Blog: http://www.masterzen.fr/ >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Puppet Users" group. >> To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. >> >> > > > > -- > Nigel Kersten - Puppet Labs - http://www.puppetlabs.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
