Thanks Jordi, that was what I was looking for.
> El Tuesday 05 February 2008 15:44:09 Chris Fanning va escriure: > > Hi, > > > > I'm new on the list but I have had some success using casper on etch. > > > > We would like your opinion on a cluster setup that we're think of. > > The idea is to boot all diskless servers over the network using a > > single filesystem image. > > Does that sound like a good idea? > > I dont have measures about that, but in the practice creating and using live > S.O.'s the delay of decompressing the image is not significant. But, there is > a little delay mounting it, > I believe that the gain for the processor to not use a squashfs image can be > lost by the server reading more data on the disk and transporting it by the > network, > When the latest squashfs with lzma does work, squashfs will become even more > faster. > > > > > We have managed to do it in the workshop using a squashed filesystem, > > but we would like to avoid the overhead and use instead a non-squashed > > filesystem. > > > > I've been trying to do it, but I'm not having much luck. > > How is it done? > > create a filesystem in a live path is easy, > make a directory in the live media path with the extension .dir and copy there > all the OS. > > mkdir -p live/filesystem.dir > cp -av chroot/* live/filesystem.dir/ > > a file named filesystem.squashfs is not required, live-initramfs search for > compressed files and directories with predefined extensions and any name. > In this manner that decompressed filesystem should work, > > > > > > > > Thanks. > > Chris. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > debian-live-devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel > > > d > > _______________________________________________ > debian-live-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel > _______________________________________________ debian-live-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel
