On 02/12/10 03:15 PM, Shawn Walker wrote: > On 02/12/10 04:11 PM, Dave Miner wrote: >> As you may recall, we reviewed a first draft of this design in >> December/early January. I've finally published a revision which >> addresses the comments I received, primarily from Jan and Ethan. >> >> While not exactly frozen, implementation work is underway based on this >> design so any remaining issues should be raised soon to allow the best >> chance to address them. >> >> http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+caiman/AI+Image+Management > > "A future provisioning enhancement that seems attractive is to support > the provisioning of a combined pkg depot + AI boot server from the > repo-on-DVD images produced beginning with OpenSolaris 2009.06." > > Actually, the performance of that will be fairly abysmal at the > moment. At least, without some significant optimisation work of the > file layout to match the expected install pattern. Even then, it > still won't be great. > > The other issue at hand is the fact that the repository (for a single > build) has now grown to a size exceeding that of a standard DVD (think > 8GB+). That's of course assuming you want *every* available package > for a single build (aka "redistributable" + unbundleds), and yes that > data is compressed already (for the most part). > > The only scenario in which I could foresee this being viable (from a > practical standpoint) is with a portable media device (e.g. USB stick, > etc.).
The statement seems to imply that the repo-on-DVD is packaged with the *server*, not the client AI image. That is, one could unbundle an AI server and a pkg.depotd with one fell swoop. The AI clients could then install from an IPS repo with the same IP as the AI server they booted from, instead of pkg.opensolaris.org. - Keith > > Cheers,
