Re: [SAGE] JAILS (Re: Respondents needed for article on sysadminsurvival)

["Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu>]

On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 11:57, Thornton Prime wrote:
> Does anyone know if the VMWare "undoable" configurations can share a 
> common set of initial state files? UML lets you do it with the 
> copy-on-write option, so you can provision out a new instance off a 
> shared configuration instantaneously. (I guess you could do the same 
> thing with a jail if your jail was running on some sort of an overlay 
> filesystem.)

vmware locks the virtual disks when they're in use, even when using an
undo log, so no.  (Or at least 2.x did; someday I'll get my freebsd
stuff moved to -CURRENT so I can be only one version behind :/)

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electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon univ.         KF8NH