Hi Àlex: This looks interesting.
Have you done any performance comparisons between SystemImager+LTSP vs standard SystemImager (like time it takes to image node and potential load on NFS server when imaging multiple systems). SystemImager has been traditionally used to deploy images to a large number of systems at the same time, so performance and scalability is quite an important metric for the software. Cheers, Bernard On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 1:50 AM, Àlex Magaz Graça<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Some months ago I was working on integrating SystemImager into LTSP. The > idea was to run the installation scripts from an LTSP environment instead of > running them from a custom initrd. > > Why do this? Well, right now, if you want to modify some of this scripts, > you have to regenerate the initrd and put it into the right place. As you > usually make mistakes you have to repeat the process several times, which is > a bit tedious. Things become worse when you need to regenerate the BOEL > binaries tar ball, for example to update some of its utilities. It also a > pain when something fails in the middle of an installation and you have to > find out what happened from a so limited busy box environment. > > So, what do we get from this? With LTSP we get a chroot of a standard > distribution mounted through NFS, which means we can modify any file and > install/upgrade any package in a really easy way. This makes it easier to > test new functionality and debug problems. > > With the attached patch I've succeeded doing installations with both rsync > and BitTorrent, but there's still a lot of work do. I've not tested > multicast and SSH installations, support for all installation parameters is > incomplete and some other things don't work as they should. > > As I don't think I'll be able to work on this anymore, I drop it here in the > hope someone finds it useful. Apart from the patch, I've also attached the > instructions on how to integrate the SystemImager scripts into the LTSP > chroot. > > Cheers, > Àlex > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus > on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > sisuite-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ sisuite-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
