Did you try to add the '--noupdateinitrd' as a parameter like 'osimage=xxx --noupdateinitrd' in chain table? It should work.
Thanks Best Regards ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wang Xiaopeng (王晓朋) IBM China System Technology Laboratory Tel: 86-10-82453455 Email: w...@cn.ibm.com Address: 28,ZhongGuanCun Software Park,No.8 Dong Bei Wang West Road, Haidian District Beijing P.R.China 100193 From: Russell Jones <russell-l...@jonesmail.me> To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>, Date: 2014/04/17 00:22 Subject: [xcat-user] xCAT diskfull image and custom initrd drivers Hi all, Every time a cluster is redeployed with a diskfull osimage, it takes a very, very long time due to it rebuilding the initrd for every single node to include our custom drivers. Example: [root@master ~]# ps aux | grep cpio root 22435 0.0 0.0 11296 1288 ? S 11:07 0:00 sh -c cd /tmp/ddtmpmH2w9vo/modules; find . -print | cpio -o -H crc | gzip -9 > /tmp/ddtmpmH2w9vo/initrd_img/modules/modules.cgz 2>&1 root 22437 0.0 0.0 8420 712 ? S 11:07 0:00 cpio -o -H crc root 23258 0.0 0.0 11296 1288 ? S 11:13 0:00 sh -c cd /tmp/ddtmp8zxIDN9/modules; find . -print | cpio -o -H crc | gzip -9 > /tmp/ddtmp8zxIDN9/initrd_img/modules/modules.cgz 2>&1 root 23260 0.0 0.0 8420 716 ? D 11:13 0:00 cpio -o -H crc root 23282 0.0 0.0 11296 1284 ? S 11:14 0:00 sh -c cd /tmp/ddtmpf3rzSJ8/modules; find . -print | cpio -o -H crc | gzip -9 > /tmp/ddtmpf3rzSJ8/initrd_img/modules/modules.cgz 2>&1 root 23285 0.0 0.0 8420 716 ? S 11:14 0:00 cpio -o -H crc root 23396 0.0 0.0 11296 1284 ? S 11:15 0:00 sh -c cd /tmp/ddtmpwWNUmJC/modules; find . -print | cpio -o -H crc | gzip -9 > /tmp/ddtmpwWNUmJC/initrd_img/modules/modules.cgz 2>&1 root 23398 0.1 0.0 8420 712 ? S 11:15 0:00 cpio -o -H crc root 23424 0.0 0.0 11296 1288 ? S 11:15 0:00 sh -c cd /tmp/ddtmpxPdAop2/modules; find . -print | cpio -o -H crc | gzip -9 > /tmp/ddtmpxPdAop2/initrd_img/modules/modules.cgz 2>&1 root 23426 0.0 0.0 8420 716 ? S 11:15 0:00 cpio -o -H crc root 23600 0.0 0.0 11296 1288 ? S 11:17 0:00 sh -c cd /tmp/ddtmpx1_N0Oq/modules; find . -print | cpio -o -H crc | gzip -9 > /tmp/ddtmpx1_N0Oq/initrd_img/modules/modules.cgz 2>&1 root 23602 0.2 0.0 8420 712 ? D 11:17 0:00 cpio -o -H crc I know there is a flag for nodeset to tell it to not rebuild the initrd, but this doesn't help with an osimage install that is done via chain. Is there a way to tell xCAT to just build the initrd once, and not rebuild it over and over again for each individual compute node when it encounters the osimage install via the chain table? Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech_______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
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