[Info-vax] Installing and using GNV - some feedback and questions

[Paul Sture]

On 2016-10-28, Marty <mkuhrt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday, October 24, 2016 at 6:33:42 PM UTC-7, BillPedersen wrote:
>> On Monday, October 24, 2016 at 7:19:06 PM UTC-4, John E. Malmberg wrote:
> > 
>> > I do not think you can mount a logical disk clusterwide, but as long as 
>> > it is a read-only volume, I would expect that each cluster could mount it.
>> 
>> Yes, you can use LD devices cluster-wide and they can also be shadow set members.
>> 
>
> It struck me the other day that use of the LD disks is similar to how
> "The New Kids" are using the concept of containers and Docker.  Put
> everything you need to run an app, or a suite of apps, in an LD and
> you should not have to worry about the underlying OS stuff (as much). 

And going back further than LD disks, it's always been possible to use
group mounted disks and group logical names.

In fact, take it back to V4.0 and judicious use of group logicals in
conjunction with group level privileges would allow quite nice
separation of multiple test and development environments on a single
machine.  An early form of sandboxing without the need for expensive
mainframe hardware :-)


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