From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40D861381F3 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 16:06:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0DEE9E0E63; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 16:06:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ea0-f179.google.com (mail-ea0-f179.google.com [209.85.215.179]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DE55BE0AC5 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 16:06:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ea0-f179.google.com with SMTP id b10so2338459eae.24 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 09:06:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Im4DYdidapYZqaI5I0UMrcbTnH/2G0fOjyL6T11WMY0=; b=Oj9zSGOMEWVK8Tg2PGAjkqeRyIXUJl0ODdSGb6JzqQ1YUj+2ooJA4HAO6PTMh/C5p4 5mD6CLRyPffdkeXXUhpPg1a2fnLsfUW45eXDiQ31CWcdSBZ/XxG5nnWxbJ4DWMTJa+9y C2YQw3xXDIcx2E31QP1Zi4tDi6oYcIR2xammQtZezvw0zajeLRX+3+ESUcZAIOEFvdF6 93oJPV2qH4fllnkNQbyWfbJS5VxvweaXFuPmx3g4/+0BayVBPYiXky4qM64hUiYfM/D3 NAuwJA7tm4B32vyUQ5EEkE9S6giPUIPeaSMv9VOKQh3G3/ryuZsWyzDkV5cJ9k6L+LE1 3LDQ== X-Received: by 10.14.177.199 with SMTP id d47mr35363757eem.14.1377619561499; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 09:06:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.41] (196-210-127-149.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.210.127.149]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id j7sm30290497eeo.15.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 27 Aug 2013 09:06:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <521CCD93.6030205@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 18:02:27 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130809 Thunderbird/17.0.8 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo References: <520A5446.1050001@mail.ru> <520DA782.4050803@sporkbox.us> <520F6333.70301@dmj.nu> <9716EEEB-144F-47AA-A828-FC9A508CE9FA@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <521090F5.4090305@gmail.com> <521122CB.4010003@libertytrek.org> <521A7EE9.8000706@gmail.com> <521AF45C.1010206@gmail.com> <521C8F22.9060200@libertytrek.org> <521C90B2.3020805@gmail.com> <521C9622.2070206@libertytrek.org> <521CA38F.3050307@gmail.com> <521CCBFA.8060007@libertytrek.org> In-Reply-To: <521CCBFA.8060007@libertytrek.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 53a50078-6072-442f-b9ae-65194b7a74be X-Archives-Hash: 3f719ac6d52dcf42eea1b721360af257 On 27/08/2013 17:55, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2013-08-27 9:03 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> It's a small image (<100M compressed), so just keep a copy handy >> somewhere and reflash. The GUI has a function where you can backup the >> running config, a restore is a simple matter of click restore in the GUI >> >> The USBstick/CF card you boot off will keep a copy of the current image >> and one version back (i.e. the one the current one replaced), so you can >> boot the old system by pressing F2 if the new one fails for some weird >> reason. > > Crazy question... > > Wondering of I could run this in a VM on my ESXi server? > > Purpose would be threefold... > > hosting windows user homes and roaming profiles > > hosting alternate email storage for dovecot (for mail archival) > > hosting email backups (rsync) > > hmm.... maybe I could even make it primary mail storage? > > Have to give this some thought... > Many people do just that (for testing and evaluation). ESXi lets you present an image file as a boot device so that's sorted. As always with VMs, IO performance is pretty sucky if you present file-based storage to the guest. It's OK to evaluate and learn the commands with, but for production you really want direct access to proper storage devices. Just make sure your backend storage is NOT itself doing RAID - ZFS doesn't play nicely with that. It really wants a JBOD with no firmware interference. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com