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On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 5:13 PM, Bill Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au> wrote: |
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> On 18/01/18 23:36, Duncan wrote: |
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> > Anthony G. Basile posted on Thu, 18 Jan 2018 06:46:53 -0500 as excerpted: |
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> >> I'm trying to design an update system for many identical Gentoo systems. |
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> >> Using a binhost is obvious, but there are still problems with this |
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> >> approach. |
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> I'd suggest go for a semi diskless OS - boot them from one central image |
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> with an individual overlay filesystem with local customisations. NFS |
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> mount the common directories. |
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> you just have a one central host to build for and don't need to worry |
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> about portage everywhere. |
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> Worked ok with a small number of mythtv frontends. |
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It doesn't work if you have a WAN; NFS needs low latencies between the NFS |
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server and the client or you will have a bad time. |
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> BillK |
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