On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 08:53:30PM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 05:46:48PM +0100, Ben Green wrote: > > > What I want to know is can vhashify be used within older vserver > > setups, specifically Debian 'etch' with it's none COWed kernel. What > > precautions would I need to take and what things can't I do inside > > these guest servers? > > I've been attending a Sun workshop yesterday (about Solaris 10, > zones/containers, and HA). There's a number of close similiarities > between HA on linux, and Linux paravirtualization technologies > with Solaris zones/containers. Instead of vhashify (and symlinks) > they're using loopback filesystem (LOFS) to minimize space for shared > resources. I'm not sure why they chose that way, and didn't go for > simple symlinks.
well, first, we do not use symlinks for a good reason, and second, with the loopback filesystem, which is more like an overlay filesystem and/or --bind mount, the actual saving is not as good as with hardlinks ... best, Herbert > -- > Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org > ______________________________________________________________ > ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org > 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE > _______________________________________________ > Vserver mailing list > Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
