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. > > 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 ? 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. > > T134="lab3 nvidia config6" > > 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 -- 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
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