On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 09:45:53 -0500, Scully, William P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I recently gave a presentation at HillGang which describes a simplified > >approach for Basevol/Guestvol in the SuSE operating system. If you > >forward me at "William dot Scully at CA doc COM" your e-mail address, > >I'll fire off to you a copy of an HTML document which describes the > >approach I used. (I believe Mark Post also has a copy and intends to > >put it on the LinuxVM.org site, when he next updates those pages.)
Bob writes: > Thanks for the reply. Yes, I saw that presentation material and between > that material and the Redbook I have been able to understand and setup > everything except for where to put the (mount --bind)'s for the guestvol > packs into the rc.d directory structure to have them so that the mounts > are done at the correct time. I'd like the presentation too, please. As for the boot time (and shutdown time) details: tweaking RedHat's scripts and ordering was the main nuisance when I was designing basevol+guestvol. It turned out to be rather easier for SLES7 but I didn't have a chance to do it properly (or for SLES8) since my test VM/Linux system is very tight on disk space and I don't have the time/focus of a residency period to extend things. I wish Al Viro would finish off the unionfs he's been talking on and off about writing for years: we could do plenty of marvellous sharing setups with that. Even a cut-down version would be almost as useful (two layers only, bottom layer only read-only, no merging, no white-outs for unlink(), just mkdir to create an empty directory on top of one below). --Malcolm -- Malcolm Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux Technical Consultant IBM EMEA Enterprise Server Group... ...from home, speaking only for myself
