Am Dienstag, 31. Juli 2007 19:00 schrieb Jan Blunck:
No. At least I don't.
Usage case: I heavily depend on using union mounts in diskless nfs setups,
since it drops the amount of administration of many systems _near_ one. It
boils down on installing the distribution of your choice in a directory,
union mount it ro, overlayed with a node private one (doing this in initrd
on the client for several reasons), add a little boot and automatic setup
machinery and be done. Since all changes are persistant, any system can be
set up individually, and still mostly only one tree is needed to keep up to
date.. Being in production in an office environment since two years without
major hassle (*).
This setup is likely to be useful for virtualization needs, too, but side
effects via the base directory from one node to another would render this
setup void.
Cheers,
Pete
*) The amount of administration work of any (necessary, unfortunately)
VMware XP instance running on top of those diskless clients excels that of
all diskless clients by an order of magnitude.
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