Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 16:57:26 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: initdiskless/rc.diskless1 Message-ID: <20040306005726.GB24617@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <20040305134125.A37156@xorpc.icir.org> References: <20040305134125.A37156@xorpc.icir.org>
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--wzJLGUyc3ArbnUjN Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 01:41:25PM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > Hi, > as usual at this time of the year (starting heavy diskless usage in > the labs) i am revising the diskless startup files. >=20 > As those interested know, directories in the client's root > can be filled from a cpio archive, or missing that, by copying > one of the server's directory. This has been changed in rev 1.17 > to always use both (the directory first, the cpio archive after). > I would like to rever this back to the old method, with the following > motivation: >=20 > + i introduced the cpio archive hack because in some cases (e.g. > paths with large delays), the separate NFS transactions for each > file was extremely time consuming. > + (less important) having files coming from two places makes it > harder to figure out where a given piece of the configuration > comes from. >=20 > Any objection ? This seems reasionable to me, but I don't use the cpio feature. > Also, I have one (rather trivial) patch that plan to commit, which > lets you specify extra paths in /conf/ to fetch the configuration > using the T134 bootp tag (available as kern.bootp_cookie). > The tag could e.g. contain a name for client classes, boxes with > different hardware, etc., making the configuration a lot more > flexible. E.g. >=20 > T134=3D"lab3 nvidia config6" >=20 > objections to this one too ? That sounds useful. Its much easier to do the grouping of hosts in the dhcp server config then in the per-IP directories. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --wzJLGUyc3ArbnUjN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFASSGbXY6L6fI4GtQRAlA/AKCLWOnSPAgOgp3cmfhsiTBs+73YuACePMbg zdnZhYqMWyRS1X54kfIzUk8= =EjqI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --wzJLGUyc3ArbnUjN--
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