Giacomo Catenazzi <c...@debian.org> writes: > - On large parallel systems, people use something more than a base debian > console installation. > Usually on net you have a complete copy for root, var etc > (in case of compromised computers. Very handy instead of reinstalling the > system) > So it is easier also to have a rsync script (without some dirs) > And on infrequent security update where data format change, > let sysadmin implement a tool to update such numberous systems. > But such case is seldom. > I really think that *most* debian machines are done in this way > (because such systemns have huge number of debian machine, and > debian is a very good distribution for such setups)
I think it's pretty unlikely that *most* Debian machines are done that way. There are a lot better tools for keeping large numbers of systems in sync these days than simple cloning from golden images, and a lot of drawbacks to the golden image approach. Also, reinstalling systems is completely trivial if you have a decent FAI infrastructure. It takes us about ten minutes to rebuild a server and reinstall all application software, and that's mostly waiting for the system BIOS boot-up checks and the small amount of manual keying we've not bothered to automate yet. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
