Re: web interface?

ron minnich
2007-07-31T21:49:17Z

On 7/31/07, Paul J R <me-wwXWdph6gTo@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> The kind of thing I had in mind was relatively simple, it'd be a
> miniture OS that would boot up (over pxe/usb/cdrom) into ram (its about
> 90mb of ram so far with kvm and a full kernel + kudzu and few small
> components such as a httpd+php). it searches for a configuration
> partition and away you go managing the rest via the web interface. I had
> clustering/multi-node sitting at the back of my head as well.

I can tell you that for clusters web console interfaces are pretty
useless, as scripting is hard for them, and a web interface is really
pretty clumsy for almost anything of reasonable size. I think that
kvmfs is really a great idea, and what I would want if I had a 128 or
1024 node or larger cluster. Note that we plan9 to do sims here with
10,000 instances of lguest on a 128-node cluster, and a web interface
would be the worst possible way to do that.

ron