In the beginning, the tar was extracted straight out of the udpcast stream "tar -xf -" style.
The ability to use tmpfs for staging was added at the request of PNNL. Sometime shortly after that, there was an issue with udpcast's threading and the version of the kernel we were using, which totally broke the "tar -xf -" style model (which had been the default). That issue has since been resolved (newer kernels, udpcast improvements), but I haven't dug back into the code to change the default back. I'll take a look now. Cheers, -Brian Erich Focht wrote: >Hi, > >after tweaking a bit OSCAR multicast deployment started to work. Sort of... >When receiving the image, this is done in one huge piece. So the piece is >transfered to the client being installed and stored in /tmp/multicast.tar. > >After a short while the filesystem (which is a tmpfs) fills up and the whole >thing breaks. > >Looking at the autoinstallscript, it seems that there is no loop over sent >chunks, so sooner or later the tmpfs must get filled up by the multicast >data. > >My node is not particularly small, so I'm wondering whether anybody really >managed to use the multicast deployment for real life cases where the image is >significanlty bigger than the available ramdisk storage. > >Wouldn't it make more sense to directly pipe the udp-receive output to a tar? > >Regards, >Erich > > > > > -- ------------------------------------------------------ Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 630.631.6621 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Sisuite-devel mailing list Sisuite-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-devel
