Linux for "cloud computing": Request for Input

[Tom Buskey]

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com>wrote:

> On 03/05/2010 02:45 PM, Tom Buskey wrote:
>
>> Samba works well here.  ZFS also has a CIFS server built in that does
>> all the ACLs that Windows needs.
>>
>
> But you still have to boot Windows off of a "C:" block-device, right? (and
> run your many apps that only run on C:)  If there's a CFS-C:\ like Linux
> NFS-root that would be really helpful.  That way you could go into, e.g.,
> C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\.zfs\ to fix your brokenness. :)
>

A fileserver won't help with apps that want everything on C:.  It will only
work for D:

I'm not sure Windows can boot off an iSCSI (or FC) target either.  Solaris
can.  I don't know if Linux can.

Then there are network boots.  Linux and Solaris excel at this.  Very useful
in provisioning.


>
> I haven't been able to find this feature, but I also don't really know what
> to search for.
>
>
I've always thought that propagating C:, D:, PRN:, etc was one of the poorer
things that NT kept from DOS (and is predecessors).  It's useful to slip a
2nd drive into a system and move /var to it when space is needed.  Or move
/usr/local to a fileserver when the workstations have small (400 MB)
drives.  (DON'T do this.  rpm won't like you and you'll create other
headaches)
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