On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 11:39:11PM +0200, Roland Mainz wrote:
> AFAIK one item is missing:
> - The packaging system should work with diskless and/or networked
> clients, e.g. clients which get all filesystems (even the root
> filesystem) via NFS or AFS/DFS (this feature is very important for
> universities or large custers).
I believe that's one of the things Stephen meant with
2. Virtualized systems. As long or longer, we've supported the notion of
diskless systems, where the installed image is shared out, in portions,
between multiple running environments. Zones was a direct evolutionary
successor of the diskless environments, and shows that this approach
can lead to some very economical deployment models. Lower-level
virtualization methods can also benefit from the administrative
precision that comes out of sharing known portions of the installation
image.
in "Old" inputs.
Danek
