Yes we use NFS when installing and also later for adding software.
But it is possible to copy that dasd containing the install-DVD tree to a
vmuser that never boots
only owns the disk, and have that disk shared, so everyone else just link to
that disk in readonly mode.
That will be fast, and you will not depend on TCP/IP either.
Tore Agblad
Volvo Information Technology
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From: Linux on 390 Port [linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of David Boyes
[dbo...@sinenomine.net]
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 18:00
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: To kick or to clone ... that is the question
> Are you using NFS to host the install tree? In some recent tests, I
> noticed a huge improvement installing over NFS when tweaking the NFS
> mount options (rsize, wsize, tcp instead of udp, timeout).
This is also one of the few cases where memory-mapping the install repository
filesystem in XSTORE on the kickstart server is worth considering. Speeds up
the process enormously at the cost of paging space and operations.
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