On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 15:31, Erik LaBianca wrote: > I too am thrilled to see this happening. It's this sort of technology > that has the potential to give linux a solid leg up on the competition > for both the desktop and the server. > 2. Configuration management. I've been trying to extract my > configuration from running systems for a while now, but not really been > entirely successful. Typically the list of files to "watch" gets > unwieldy, or someone forgets to make the .orig file, or commit to cvs. I > think ideally a configuration management system would integrate rpm (to > know what files are config files) and cvs/subversion (to provide > revision control) in such a way that you have revision controlled > configuration files available off-system. > > In a truly stateless system, you could just export all the config files > from CVS into the ramdisk on bootup. http://quattor.web.cern.ch/quattor http://www.lcfg.org might help there.
