> Hi FAI developers, > > following patch for the experimental tree implements the possibility > to use a squashfs compressed config space downloaded via http. > > I use a md5 checksum file to verify a complete download and to > minimize unneeded downloads of the config space to reduce bandwith. > > I use this patch in an environment where a lot of client machines > will request the config space every two hours for FAI softupdate. > > I use following small Makefile in my config space to create a > squashfs image and its checksum file: > all: > rm /var/www/cspace/fai-cspace.img* > mksquashfs . /var/www/cspace/fai-cspace.img -all-root > (cd /var/www/cspace/ && md5sum fai-cspace.img > fai-cspace.img.md5) > chmod 644 /var/www/cspace/fai-cspace.img* > > My fai.conf variable is: > FAI_CONFIG_SRC=http://172.16.42.7/cspace/fai-cspace.img > > A verified a successful installation on a Debian/squeeze host and > fai client. It also works fine on Ubuntu/lucid. Older Debian > releases are not supported, because of the missing squashfs kernel > support. > > looking forward to get some feedback, >
[...] No feedback related to this specific patch as I wouldn't require such a feature myself, but I'd really appreciate if you just committed that to SVN yourself :-) I'd love to not be the only one to use this branch anymore!! Best, Michael
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