I'm not sure where to post this, but I think all of the relevant players are on this list, but I'm happy to move this elsewhere if warranted. At $DAYJOB we have a fairly simple requirement - a stateless image that can be either PXE booted or booted off of local disk. The important characteristic here is that when the machine is rebooted, it loses all concept of local state. The authority of what state the machine should be in lives elsewhere, so it needs to come up, be stupid. and phone home for further instructions. We originally thought that LiveCD was the perfect mechanism for this, and it worked fine - until the devicemapper read/write overlay (RAM backed in this case) got filled up, and then the whole thing goes BOOM! What I'm interested in is finding some way for a non-persistent overlay to not blow up in our faces when the system has been up for awhile and various logs, etc have been written. The use case is for a KVM hypervisor, so we'll have long running VM's on the hypervisor and all the attendant logs being written. The VM's are of course backed by local disk. Is such a thing feasible? Am I barking up the wrong tree, or is there something that I'm not thinking of here? _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
