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Channel log from 1 January 2011   (all times are UTC)

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<alkisg>
Happy new year to all
01:09
<muppis>
Thank you and same to you.
01:10
alkisg, got boring evening so I played little with ltsp. Had rebuild whole image to get autologin to work.
01:11
<alkisg>
Rebuilding should be necessary though...
01:13
<muppis>
But now need to disable Gnome screensaver as xbmc has build-in one and it works better when not using keyboard nor mouse.
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<alkisg>
Gnome screensaver has "blank only" hardcoded for ltsp clients afaik
01:16
<muppis>
Cannot be disabled?
01:18
Well, hope it doesn't cause massive problems.
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<alkisg>
Urm vbox just crashed my kernel when I tried to change host-only networking settings...
01:25
<muppis>
Maybe it got little hangover from last night?
01:26
<alkisg>
:)
01:26
<muppis>
:)
01:27
But I think I gotta go out with the kids. There plenty of snow there..
01:30
<alkisg>
NIce!!!
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<alkisg>
nbd-server -c seems very stable, the diff is 1.2 Gb so far and it's still fast (I even used it to make a /swap file on the client...)
12:42
<vagrantc>
yay
12:43
that's the cow option?
12:43
<alkisg>
Yup
12:44
I netbooted a natty vm off of it by just installing nbd-client and setting eth0 inet manual in interfaces, and now I'm stressing it...
12:44
Also nfs+tmpfs with aufs was stable
12:45
Next I want to test nfs + cow nbd instead of tmpfs + aufs
12:46
<vagrantc>
wow. last time i tried nfs with aufs it exploded badly
12:46
<alkisg>
It needs mount --move, it doesn't like mount --bind
12:47
<vagrantc>
do we do mount --bind anywhere?
12:47
<alkisg>
(and I tested with the same paths, /rofs and /cow, I don't know if it matters)
12:47
I think so, yes
12:47
I.e. if ot
12:47
<vagrantc>
mount --move is so much better if it works
12:47
<alkisg>
I.e. if it's mounted on /cow and then made available on another path, maybe it has problems then
12:47
It makes mtab work ok (it's writeable then)
12:48
No need to symlink it to /proc/mounts
12:48
While mount --bind makes duplicate entries in mtab
12:48
<vagrantc>
one of the problems with mtab is not writing to mtab itself, but that files assumed they could write to /etc/mtab?*
12:49
i think there are a few other files with similar issues ...
12:49
<alkisg>
With nfs + [tmpfs | empty cow nbd] + aufs, it's not a problem, they can write wherever they want...
12:49
<vagrantc>
passwd and group and such
12:49
that would be slick
12:50
<alkisg>
After implementing it, I saw a web page that described exactly how I did it... http://www.logicsupply.com/blog/2009/01/27/how-to-build-a-read-only-linux-system/
12:50
<vagrantc>
heh
13:00
<alkisg>
Nope, after 40 minutes of stressing (the diff went to 1.3G) no noticable delay in nbd-server -c.
13:00
No failures in syslog, all seem fine
13:02
<vagrantc>
very, very cool.
13:03
alkisg: did you just tweak the ltsp_nbd script to support it?
13:03
<alkisg>
No, I'm testing without LTSP
13:03
Just a VM installation of natty, exporting the .vdi disk with nbd
13:03
<vagrantc>
the .vdi disk is readable as a normal disk?
13:04
<alkisg>
And I only installed nbd-client in the VM + added eth0 inet manual in interfaces so that network-manager doesn't touch it
13:04
vdfuse from virtualbox-ose-fuse can export the partitions as block devices
13:04
So they can be loop mounted or exported with nbd-server
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Ah, so there was also the vdfuse overhead, heh, I didn't notice it
13:06
I bet with squashfs and without vdfuse it'll go even faster
13:06
(it's usually 2.5 times faster, measured on my fat client labs... cool)
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13:12* alkisg goes on to write an ltsp-update-image equivalent for vbox VMs...
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<alkisg>
Heh, tmpfs/aufs is also handy there, it allows for chroot-installing nbd-client + tweaking interfaces/fstab without having to modify the VM beforehand
13:30
(either that or mounting the VM partition with nbd-server -c, which makes it cow)
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<AndyGraybeal>
what do you guys think of x2go and do you think it is a worthy replacement for LTSP as far as terminal server/clients go?
16:28
i hope no one takes offsense to the question, i just started to use it as a replacement for NX (NX started giving me some fit)
16:29
and now i am wondering if it would be better to replace ltsp with it instead.
16:29
there's nothing wrong with ltsp in my mind, and in fact i love it. i'm just questioning my setup.
16:30
i think x2go would give me the ability for 'session' management; and i like that. i want to be able to boot up a machine at work, suspend that session, go home and then connect to the same sesion from home.
16:31
if you have any thoughts i would be interested in hearing them.
16:32
<alkisg>
I've never used it, but if it uses nx, then it's not very fast for video etc
16:32
X is the fastest there is for local network
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(when direct, without ssh)
16:34
Unfortunately I don't know of any good x-proxy implementations that could combine both speed + session management...
16:35
With a good x-proxy, plain X could still be used locally for speed, and then something nx-based from home (adsl etc), with session pause/resume in both cases...
16:37
Also maybe nx-based solutions won't scale well for too many clients, I imagine they raise the server CPU too much
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<Mathis>
hello
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<alkisg>
Hello
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<AndyGraybeal>
thank you for your explanation alkisg.
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<Mathis>
what is this ltsp-clustering used for?
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