Re: [Vserver] Gentoo and hashified files

From: Einar S. Idsų <esi_at_itk.ntnu.no>
Date: Fri 25 May 2007 - 11:27:44 BST
Message-ID: <4656BA20.6010809@itk.ntnu.no>

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
>
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