Отправлено с iPhone > 02 июня 2014 г., в 9:35, Beeblebrox <zap...@berentweb.com> написал(а): > > Hello Andrey, > > The linked article, under the "Advanced Options" title (just past middle of > page) covers two interesting aspects of non-tftp transfer alternatives. > One is "Faster Transfers With HTTP", > The other is NFS. > > Neither method / description has anything to do with issue of mount_nfs after > the kernel has been loaded. >
The code you quoted has. > > Implementing NFS client in grub is a lot of work for very little gain, > > especially if you are speaking about PXE which mandates working tftp > > server. What exact functionality is missing right now? > > The advantage of using http or nfs compared to tftp is transfer speed, as > summarized on the page: > > "TFTP is not particularly fast when transferring the 200M or larger > compressed filesystems used by some bootable utilities. Newer utilities can > often retrieve their filesystem images by HTTP, which is much faster. One > target system took three minutes to load the sysrcd.dat file by TFTP. With > HTTP, it took only 18 seconds." > Grub already supports HTTP. Did you try it? > The article describes NFS as an alternative to HTTP, with conceivably similar > file transfer speed. > > Of course, the grub developers may have decided that "grub is a boot loader > and not a PXE oriented project"; which is of course fine. As stated, I just > wanted to get your view(s) on the described alternative boot method. > > Regards. _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
