Oliver, Thank you very much for your description. It sounds highly interesting, and I may try it out when I have the time.
Thanks! Einar Oliver Welter wrote: > Its a bit tricky - I will sketch the setup for you: > > I have a template /vservers/template - that is a full blown gentoo > installation for vservers. When I do updates, I do them by chroot'ing to > this dir - NOT by entering a vserver! > This way the portage and the dependency database (stored in /var/) get > updated. > > In the vserver guests fstab, I mount the "per guest" partition to /disk > and overlay some bind-mounts for /var and some of the /etc directories > (not the whole one!). For easy setups its also ok to make symlinks from > /etc to the var partition > The only thing you must take care of, are updates that change the > config-files syntax. It should be obious that files on the per-guest > config system (the cut-out parts of /etc and perhaps things in /var) are > not updated. I use this setup for Webservers mainly, they are nearly > equal so I just have a differing config for /etc/apache2, all network > and hostname stuff ist done from outside. > > If you have any questions dont mind to ask > > Oli > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Vserver mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [email protected] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
