Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 13:41:25 -0800 From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: initdiskless/rc.diskless1 Message-ID: <20040305134125.A37156@xorpc.icir.org>
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Hi,
as usual at this time of the year (starting heavy diskless usage in
the labs) i am revising the diskless startup files.
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:
+ 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.
Any objection ?
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.
T134="lab3 nvidia config6"
objections to this one too ?
cheers
luigi
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