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as i am working on stuff on AWS lately i have been thinking (big trouble now) that building LFS in a cloud instance might be an interesting project. i once built LFS to run from a dual-architecture CD (x86 and Sparc) which was quite fun. instances can use a nice small lean OS especially when running 100's or 1000's of them.
Last edited by Skaperen; 03-06-2015 at 06:39 AM.
Reason: fix a typo as usual
The closest I've come to that is creating a Slackware "stump" (minimal configuration, I just need to be able to maintain a stable kernel, "make" and write to disk) and then use custom tagfiles to build the stump out to a working instance. (On a Xen server, which is the technology AWS uses, this is much faster than building them from true scratch and since your not using the raw format for the template, the finished instance is significantly slimmed down. )
You are exactly right about the advantages though, with a little practice you can put together some really "light and tight" Server platforms that only do one thing and do it well.
Since LFS is designed for perpetual rebuilds, it may perform better than Slackware on something like that. I'd be interested in finding that out if you try it.
I like to perf test VMs. Grind them a little and see how they swell. Slackware is impressive in that scenario as well.
If I could only figure out how to jam PAM in there so it can play nicely in a mixed UNIX/AD domain...
Oh well, tomorrows another day and a weekend one at that so, hope springs eternal.
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