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 luigiReceived on Fri Mar 05 2004 - 12:41:26 UTC
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