Chris O'Regan wrote:
>>> What if I have a sub-cobbler that will manage its own set of systems? 
>>> Won't it want to write into /var/www/cobbler? I would prefer that only 
>>> my master cobbler have write access to this directory and mount it 
>>> read-only on the sub-cobblers.
>>>       
>> In this case, use could use "cobbler import" with --available-as to add 
>> trees that are on NFS.
>>     
>
> In this particular case, NFS won't be possible. The purpose of this 
> Cobbler is for students to build their own servers, and as a policy we 
> do not export NFS to untrusted subnets. Hrmmm... --available-as need not 
> be NFS, right? I suppose I can work around this by making the trees 
> available through the web server manually and do a "cobbler import" with 
> --available-as=http://...
>   

Correct!

>   
>> You could also use cobbler replicate to copy /var/www/cobbler between 
>> the systems. That's all rsync powered so why you'd need a bit of storage 
>> the install trees would not change often.
>>     
>
> This might be a reasonable alternative since this server has a single 
> purpose and plenty of local disk space that will otherwise go unused, 
> but I would like to avoid the duplicate data, if possible.
>
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Chris
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