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On 23/01/14 13:21, Philip Hudson wrote: > Is this as clever as it sounds? > > http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/sidus%E2%80%94-solution-extreme-deduplication-operating-system Not really - I'm not going to knock them at all, but any half decent cadre of sysadmins running big enough systems are going to be doing very, very similar things. Largely, that's how we all automate our stuff: DHCP gets fed MACs and you control your assets by booting them via TFTP or BOOTP initially and then injecting them with the correct kernel & initrd for role/job/admin as appropriate. NFS roots and iSCSI targets back on the deduped SAN (I use ZFS for that, the same as this guy recommends at the end of his article) are business as usual, as are tweaking parameters and installs afterwards with Puppet, etc (which he also mentions). I'm actually going to read through it again because there are some definite novelties in his approach, particularly some ingenious debootstrapping, but 90% of what he mentions you will going on in any sensibly administered server room or data centre. Although he mentions some machines are deployed for hosting Virtualbox installs, the major difference is that at least in my environments, we make much heavier use of virtualization and pre-built images to stage to our boxes. Regards -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq