From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 5 16:57:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 746E616A4CE for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 16:57:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49AC143D2F for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 16:57:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (IDENT:brdavis@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.10/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i260vQRH027592; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 16:57:26 -0800 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.10/8.12.3/Submit) id i260vQjx027591; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 16:57:26 -0800 Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 16:57:26 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Luigi Rizzo Message-ID: <20040306005726.GB24617@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <20040305134125.A37156@xorpc.icir.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="wzJLGUyc3ArbnUjN" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040305134125.A37156@xorpc.icir.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) on odin.ac.hmc.edu cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: initdiskless/rc.diskless1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 00:57:30 -0000 --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--