On 2013-09-17 14:20, Mike Buland wrote:
> Actually, runit can handle this just fine as well, I store all of my
> supervise folders in the /run tree using symlinks, and all logs in the
> /var/log directory, also using symlinks. Runit is very symlink friendly :)
>
that is the exact setup that I want to avoid - I don't like such tweaks
- and daemontools-encore solves this for me out of the box
/Uffe :-)
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 5:25 AM, Uffe Jakobsen <uffe_at_uffe.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 2013-09-17 06:23, Laurent Bercot wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi, folks. Does anyone see any problem with storing full service
>>>> directories, including logs and supervise fifos, on NFS-mounted
>>>> filesystems? It appears to work fine in my trials, but I'm curious if
>>>> anyone else has any experience with this, and knows if there are any
>>>> gotchas I might face down the road. Thanks.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Jamie,
>>>
>>> Don't do it.
>>> The point of NFS is to share a part of the filesystem across several
>>> computers. A supervised service is local to a machine; service
>>> directories store local information. Things such as service PID and
>>> lock file cannot be shared. (Even if NFS locking works, you don't want
>>> to prevent a service from starting up on a machine because the same
>>> service is already up on another.)
>>>
>>> Keep local information on local filesystems.
>>>
>>>
>> FYI
>>
>> One solution could be daemontools-encore by Bruce Guenter
>>
>> daemontools-encode (supervise) supports storing the status files in an
>> alternate directory specified by $SUPERVISEDIR.
>>
>> See: Environment
>> http://untroubled.org/**daemontools-encore/supervise.**8.html#toc3<http://untroubled.org/daemontools-encore/supervise.8.html#toc3>
>>
>> This feature was requested by me (and others) that use daemontools on
>> embedded systems that had most of its filesystems mounted readonly.
>>
>> Hence it is possible to split service definitions and its dynamic
>> runtime informations - quite handy
>>
>> /Uffe
>>
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