Re: deprecating /usr as a standalone filesystem?
Giacomo Catenazzi <cate@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 (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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