[Server-devel] /library partition

[Sameer Verma]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:55 AM, Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff at gmail.com
> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Dave Bauer<dave at solutiongrove.com>
> wrote:
> > I am not sure if there is any documentation:
>
> - pgsql-xs the postgresql database for Moodle (and any other Pg DB we
> might add :-) )
>

OK.


>
> - users which I think are home directories for the registered XOs which
>  will contain their backups.
>

Yes, I see the backups from registered accounts.


>
> - xs-activation which holds crypto keys, activations and delegations.
> With the new xs-activation package it gets used quite a bit in
> deployments with delegated leases -- ie: with XSs that don't have an
> internet connection but still run a bitfrost-secured deployment.
>

OK. Haven't toyed with this as yet.


>
> - xs-activity-server which stores ".xo" activities
>

Now, this is interesting. How do the activities get pushed to the XOs?


>
> - xs-rsync - anything served via rsync. Right now that is only OS
> updates for the XOs.
>


OK. So this would be the img file for an update? How does it get pushed?


> > I believe the overall idea is that anything that is "content" goes in
> > this directory as opposed to software or parts of the operating
> > system.
>
> Exactly. In short, it's the 'data' partition, the one you want to
> backup, the one that wants a 1TB external disk, the one to mirror or
> clone.
>

Got it.


>
> There is a "bug" in that /var/lib/moodle should be in /library.
>

Thought so.


>
> cheers,
>
>
>
> m
> ps: wiki material perhaps?
>

Yes, will create a page and add the items.

cheers,
Sameer
-- 
Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Information Systems
San Francisco State University
San Francisco CA 94132 USA
http://verma.sfsu.edu/
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