I completely agree. Distributed filesystems for /home is my standard practice as well. Mr. Demeyer knows his stuff.
On Wednesday, August 29, 2012 3:25:43 PM UTC-5, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > > On 2012-08-29 22:19, Matthew Alton wrote: > > All very good news! > > > > I must correct my mistake. I wrote RAID/0. This should be RAID/1. > > We're after mirroring with no stripes or parity. > > > > As to the disk space requirements, we'll have to do some calculations. > > In the simplest case we have a single VM running a single instance of an > > operating system. The baseline for this is around 12GB. Right off the > > bat we can complicate matters by not using pre-allocated storage. I > > tend to value sanity over space optimization, so I just pre-allocate > > 12GB per VM. We then need some data storage. Will the source tree be > > shared via a distribited filesystem? > > I propose the /home directory to be shared (by whatever mechanism). > That is, /home should exist in exactly one place and be accessible from > all VM's. This is the setup we currently have for Skynet (using > different physical machines and /home mounted over NFS) and it seems to > work reasonably well. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en.
