Re: Introducing XAR - SquashFS based mountable executables - Calling OS/Distro Maintainers

Barry Warsaw <[email protected]> Tue, 17 Jul 2018 19:47:12 -0700

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>> * Is there any practical operational or performance limits on the number of mounted XARs you can have?  E.g. what's the impact of deploying say a few thousand XARs on any particular machine (generally, of Linux and macOS - I'm not as concerned about Windows :)
> We have tiers (think of that as a collection of servers for a particular service) that have 100s mounted at times. Have not hit 1000s - But have not seen any huge problems with 100s. What do your servers do that would need 1000s of XARs running at once? Seems like that could be optimized.

I’m not thinking about just our server deployed applications, but our command line tools too.  Combined, that’s roughly in the ballpark of 1000 or so Python applications (more if we count other languages).

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>> * Do you just put the XAR mountpoint's bin on everyone's $PATH or do you symlink those bins into a standard $PATH location?
> Standard PATH location via RPM installs.

Cool, thanks!

-Barry

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