Chris O'Regan wrote:
>> I see.
>>
>> Currently cobbler import assumes the NFS path is set up by an 
>> automounter on the cobbler server when using --available-as and is 
>> always available.
>>     
>
> Using the automounter to mount the ISO images on demand had crossed my 
> mind but I had experienced problems with this when I was setting up 
> mrepo. That was last week, so the context has been well swapped out. :-/ 
> It's slowly reloading and I am pretty sure now that the autofs problems 
> I had are not an issue here. I'll give this a try.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
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mrepo does some things about leaving ISO's mounted as loopbacks, which I 
personally don't like as I am suspicious of loopbacks and don't want to 
keep track of which ones are used/free and when.

I do understand the idea of "I want to keep the ISO's around" but it has 
not really been a much requested feature.

Here at work we have a huge library of trees (basically every distro 
we've ever built) on NFS via autofs and I frequently import that with 
--available-as to use as an install source.

--Michael


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