Thank you for the comments. reply is inline On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Alok Aggarwal <[email protected]>wrote:
> Andrew, > > I reviewed v2 of the design document. Here are my > comments: > > General Questions: > > By combining the AI and the text install image, the size > of the image for the AI users would be greater than it is > today (by ~150Mb). How much of a performance impact does this > have on AI client boot? > > What commands will I use to set up either an AI or a text-install > service on the server? Would there be a way to setup the service > such that it offers *only* AI or text-install but not both? > There would not be a way to switch them on and off with out recreating/downloading the image with out one or the other. > > -- > > Page 3: Nit: The Client section mentions the net-fs-root > service. net-fs-root is actually the start method for the > filesystem/root:net service. > thank you, I will clarify that. Would it be best to change "net-fs-root service" to "net-fs-root script"? > > Page 3: "Since both AI and the text installer are SMF scripts we can use > svcadm to switch them on and off." > > I think what you mean here is that even if AI is selected > as part of the boot process, it would be easy to switch over > to the text installer instead. Just disable AI and enable > text-install. > Exactly > > Question 1: Have you verified that this will actually work? > text-install gets invoked out of system/install-setup and in > that environment, console-login is disabled at media construction > time. Due to that, I am unsure how switching between AI and > text-install would work. > It worked fine in our prototype. We disable console login along with AI. This all happens before either of them start running. > > Question 2: Would the AI service discovery parameters be > provided to the client as part of boot by default? > Sorry, I'm not quite sure what you are asking. I believe the answer is no since we are stopping the AI install before the service discovery happens. > > Alok >
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