Shawn Wells wrote:
What's the current state of $subject?
In going through the mailing list archives I've noticed a few
unanswered postings, and the Wiki states "...concentrating on for FC7
is the basic infrastructure," which gives me the impression it hasn't
been updated in awhile.
So -- what is the status of the project? Has it been dropped?
Stateless has not been dropped. It continues to be actively worked in
several dimensions. While there was initially a lot of work to
facilitate as close to readonly root as possible- that final vision has
yet to be reached. The major remaining challenges are in areas like:
- representing the configuration data on an otherwise readonly root
- system management deployment tools to provision large scale usage
We continue to make enhancements related to configuration data in
several areas. Such as unionfs, and tools like puppet which
automatically propogate config changes. Puppet is one piece which also
fits into a broader deployment strategy. As we do broader system
management & provisioning initiatives, they also tie-into things like
virtualization.
So stateless isn't dead, nor has it yet realized its complete vision.
Rather stateless refers to technologies that we continue to enhance.
This work is still ongoing. In the interests of doing it right we have
taken a longer-term approach of community development through Fedora.
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