Corey Wright wrote:
On Mon, 22 May 2006 10:29:20 -0400
Fareha Shafique <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
i assume you are following the process outlined on
http://linux-vserver.org/alpha+util-vserver under "vhashify".
I just wanted to make sure hashify only unifies rpm packages, right?
no. vhashify (the helper application called with "vserver <name> hashify")
has no knowledge of the rpm database and what files are installed by rpm
and which are unique to the specific vserver (whether generated by an rpm
post-installation script or manually created by the user).
Any
other files I want to unify I will have to manually hardlink them?
no. when you run vhashify it creates hardlinks
within /etc/vservers/.defaults/apps/vunify/hash/0 to all files that are not
explicitly excluded within /usr/lib/util-vserver/defaults/vunify-exclude
(well, that's the file within the debian package; location may vary).
again, all files are "unified" that are not explicitly excluded.
If hardlinks are created the inode numbers should be the same. But when
I hashified 2 of my vservers (I first used the -nv option to see which
files would be unified) I checked the files that were supposed to have
been unified and I don't get the same inode number? I don't get any
error messages, I'm not sure if my hashify is working? How can I check?
Like I mentioned in another thread, I created the second vserver using a
template of the first one. The number of links on most files in the
template is already more than one, and hashify does not increase the
number of these links.
here's something i had to learn the hard way: you can specify exclusions
for a specific vserver, but the vserver-specific exclusions are
supplementary, not complimentary. so when you
create /etc/vservers/<name>/apps/vunify/exclude it's best to begin that
file with a copy of /usr/lib/util-vserver/defaults/vunify-exclude.
I'm using FC4, I can't seem to find the vunify-exclude file....
again, if a vserver-specific exclusion list exists, then the default
exclusion list is totally disregarded, and only the vserver-specific
exclusion list is consulted when running vhashify on that vserver.
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