http://linux-vserver.at/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=Andybill 2026-04-11T00:34:01Z User contributions MediaWiki 1.20.2 http://linux-vserver.at/User_talk:Andybill 2007-08-01T14:33:18Z

<p>Andybill: Site-to-site failover of VServers, and experiments with the ZFS filesystem.</p> <hr /> <div>Transfer of vservers over L2TP: effects of latency in transferring a vserver from one host to another, with block-replicated storage used for the /vservers area .... anyone tried this? Update: tested and working fine across a Fast Ethernet connection between two data centres. <br /> <br /> ZFS for storage of vservers is working up to a point; using zfs-fuse is fine for the /var/lib/vservers and /etc/vservers data, but any attempt to use apt fails. Seems to be due to a problem with apt mmap usage on FUSE, not ZFS specific. Horrible workaround is move vserver data back to the spare ext3, do the install/upgrade, then move it back to ZFS. Reason for having vservers on ZFS is that they are now snapshotted by ZFS each time they start successfully, so when experimenting with new builds / software, I don't have to do backups :-)</div>

Andybill http://linux-vserver.at/User_talk:Andybill 2007-05-21T18:54:59Z

<p>Andybill: </p> <hr /> <div>I'm not sure whether this the right place for this, or whether anyone will see it! but here's a list of questions I have and what I want to test!<br /> <br /> Installation on Debian 4.0 SPARC, Ubuntu Edgy SPARC and x86 32-bit SMP: can I host other distros, yes, but can I host other pseudo-architectures? For example, can I get FC6 vservers to run on SPARC hosts?<br /> <br /> Transfer of vservers: can I test and develop vserver templates on my (AMD64) laptop, save the template and install on my (SPARC) servers?<br /> <br /> Transfer of vservers over L2TP: effects of latency in transferring a vserver from one host to another, with block-replicated storage used for the /vservers area .... anyone tried this?</div>

Andybill