[Gllug] Virtual disk allocation advice requested

[Jose Luis Martinez]

FWIW, in most places where I have worked core services were started
manually before starting client machines, these services will run
months at the time without being disrupted.



On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 01:43:29PM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
>> For example,
>> it is perfectly possible to ensure that one domU comes up before any
>> others (you simply have to add to or modify the standard Xen start-up
>> scripts) and run the NFS server from there.
>
> It's quite hard to ensure this.  On my server I start the guests in a
> known order, with extra sleeps between the core guests (NFS, mail,
> DNS) and the rest.  But there could still be a case where a guest has
> to do an fsck or whatever where the services wouldn't be up by the
> time the other guests start.  The next step beyond that is to start
> the NFS guest and test that the NFS service is responding before
> starting the other guests.  I don't know of anything you can download
> which actually does this though.
>
> Rich.
>
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