Marianne, I found some discussions about ext4 in partimage-ng, but I couldn't find any released code supporting it.
Another option would be to look at building a new stateless image and replacing partimage/partimage-ng with fsarchiver. I tried just adding a statically built verions of it to the existing stateless image, but the version of mke2fs is too old to create ext4 filesystems to restore (it could capture okay) and the version of ntfs-3g is too old to mount ntfs filesystems for capture. We'll probably have interest to capture ext4 in the next few months, but I don't think I'll have much time to work on it before then. We've just configured all of our linux deploys to use ext3 up until now. Josh On Wednesday, July 18, 2012 10:10:51 AM you wrote: > Marianne, > > The code I wrote includes support for using both partimage and partimage-ng. > It looks like a newer version of partimage-ng supports ext4. I'll see > if I can have a look at updating the partimage-ng binary in rootimg.gz > soon. > Josh > > On Wednesday, July 18, 2012 1:50:14 AM Marianne Rieckmann wrote: > > > Hi Josh, > > Thanks for your reply. > > The note that partimage cannot capture ext4 may be a problem for our > > CentOS6.2 images. > > > > I will investigate using SystemImager in the raw, and wait for the xCAT > > v2.8 integration that is hopefully not too far away. Regards, > > Marianne. > > > > ________________________________________ > > From: Josh Thompson [[email protected]] > > Sent: Tuesday, 17 July 2012 11:35 PM > > To: xCAT Users Mailing list > > Subject: Re: [xcat-user] Diskful image-based installs > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Marianne, > > > > > > > > You've highlighted that I wrote those instructions from the viewpoint of > > > > adding imaging support to xCAT for use with VCL. VCL would be issuing > > the > > > > commands to xCAT; so, I didn't think to note what they would be. I'll > > add > > > > that info to the page as well as the items you listed. > > > > > > > > To capture an image, you use > > > > > > > > nodeset <node> image > > > > > > > > To deploy the image, you use > > > > > > > > nodeset <node> install > > > > > > > > In xCAT's nodetype table, you need to set the OS for the node to 'image'. > > > > > > > > Images will be captured to > > > > > > > > ${INSTALLROOT}/image/${ARCH}/${PROFILE} > > > > > > > > where ${INSTALLROOT} is where install media and stuff gets places > > (typically > > /install) and ${ARCH} and ${PROFILE} are from the nodetype table. > > > > > > > > It looks like you have most values set correctly. You'll need to set > > > > IMAGELIBINSTALLDIR to just '/install'. > > > > > > > > One thing to note is that partimage cannot capture ext4. > > > > > > > > If everything goes well, you should be able to watch it boot the kernel > > from > > the remote console, and then run 'nodestat <node>' to see the progress of > > the > > > > image capture. > > > > > > > > Keep posting any problems you encounter, and I'll do my best to guide you > > > > through them. > > > > > > > > Also, VCL has an IRC room on freenode at #asfvcl if that would be > > helpful. > > > > I'm typically available there between 9am and 4pm EST during work days. > > > > > > > > Josh > > > > > > > > > > - ------------------------------- > > > > Josh Thompson > > > > VCL Developer > > > > North Carolina State University > > > > > > > > my GPG/PGP key can be found at pgp.mit.edu > > > > > > > > All electronic mail messages in connection with State business which > > > > are sent to or received by this account are subject to the NC Public > > > > Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties. > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ---- Live Security Virtual Conference > > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and > > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. 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