WARNING - OLD ARCHIVES

This is an archived copy of the Xen.org mailing list, which we have preserved to ensure that existing links to archives are not broken. The live archive, which contains the latest emails, can be found at http://lists.xen.org/
   
 
 
Xen 
 
Home Products Support Community News
 
   
 

xen-users

Re: [Xen-users] What's recommended method for serving data to/among DomU

> which I believe says the same.
>
> My goal is to abstract DomU instances from their embodied apps' data
> -- e.g., bind zones, apache web files, etc., and to centralize that
> data so as to be easy to backup.

I see.

> With your explanations (thanks!), and a bit of reading, I think
> OpenFiler in a DomU, booted early is my solution -- with subsequent
> VM's reading their apps' data/conf/etc from OpenFiler-published NFS
> partitions gets me 'there' ...
>
> Bottom line, I do need -- or at least want -- simultaneous access.

OK.

nb. block level devices such as NBD, iSCSI and friends are fine for a "read 
many, write exclusive" setup - e.g. multiple domains mounting a device and 
reading from it, but they must all unmount in order for a single writer to 
modify the contents.  This works without any fuss, using a normal non-cluster 
filesystem.  For some scenarios, this suffices.

Otherwise, good luck with your setup.  IIRC, OpenFiler offer Xen-enabled 
appliance downloads so that should serve your purposes.

Cheers,
Mark

-- 
Push Me Pull You - Distributed SCM tool (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~maw48/pmpu/)

_______________________________________________
Xen-users mailing list
Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users