RE: Stateless Linux experience...

[Mark McLoughlin <markmc redhat com>]

Hi,

On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 09:05 -0500, Mike Herrick wrote:

> > > 6) Because of the RAM problem above, I'm not sure that subsequent
> > > invocations of "stateless-snapshooter -n -p DemoSystem" actually
> > > worked as designed.  When I execute "stateless-snapshooter -l", I get:
> > >
> > > Protosystems:
> > >    DemoSystem
> > >
> > > But it doesn't say anything about snapshots.  This makes me nervous.
> > > What should the output look like?
> > 
> > 	Yeah, looks like there aren't any snapshots listed in LDAP.
> > 
> > 	Are there snapshots in /srv/stateless/snapshots?
> > 
> > 	Maybe use GQ (GUI LDAP client) to poke around in LDAP to see if any
> > record of the snapshots are being made?
> 
> Part of the problem may be that I hadn't run 'stateless-servers -a'.  Do I
> have to run this before or after taking a snapshot?  What values do I give
> for nfs_path and rsync_path?

	Yeah, I think you need to run it before taking the snapshot. Something
like this:

$> stateless-servers -a -n /srv/stateless/snapshots myserver.foo.net

	(assuming you want the image served to stateless clients rather than
caching clients. Use -r for caching clients)

Cheers,
Mark.