On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 03:21:44PM -0500, Matthew Nuzum wrote: > Hello, I've been using linux-vserver for years and years. I'm getting > ready to put a couple servers into use and it seems things have > changed greatly since I last configured it. Namely, you can do lots of > cool stuff that couldn't be done before. > > I'll admit, I'm using a budget colo facility. I want to keep my > bandwidth down. To achieve this, I've connected the servers via eth1 > to each other to create a private lan. Ideally, all traffic between > the hosts would use this lan. I first started struggling with the idea > of setting up multihomed vhosts when I realized it was pure insanity > to do so. It would be so much better to create all the vservers on the > private lan segment and use the hosts as routers to the outside world. > By using SNAT rules, I can keep all my vhost traffic quiet and I can > even install different services on different vhosts. Smart, right? Am > I on the right track here, or should I just use multi-homed vservers? > Anyone here seen a scenario like this documented? I'd love to be able > to stand on the shoulders of giants. > > Additionally, I would love to use both quota and have the benefits of > unification. I understand that to use quotas you need a separate > filesystem. Of course, this makes unification impossible. So I had a > bright idea. > > Most of the user data, everything I think I need to count against > quotas as a matter of fact, will be in /home. So what if I create a > filesystem (loop for example) and somehow mount it so that it is /home > in the vserver. Would this allow me to enable quotas on the /home area > of the disk?
yep, but I'd suggest to use lvm volumes, because they will give you better performance than loop files > Lastly, what is the best way to share user accounts across several > vservers? (possibly spanning two physical hosts) Best being simple, > reliable, non resource intensive and secure. on the same host: have the same filesystem on different hosts: use a network based filesystem HTH, Herbert > Thanks for your suggestions and help. > > -- > Matthew Nuzum > newz2000 on freenode > _______________________________________________ > 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