On 11/21/2011 04:58 AM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
maybe add some documentation too. like, how does the http/ftp support work
(downloads the full image first?) and how does it compare to nbd (less
efficient?)
Dieter
* download full image to RAM. This is curl only, not fuse with
curlftpfs/httpfs.
* compared to nbd, well... much much more memory is needed. Also more
memory than when using nbd+copytoram, since copytoram only copies needed
*.sfs. So for example if you boot with archiso_pxe_curl and fetch
"core-dual.iso", ~700MiB of RAM is needed just for the iso, while using
nbd+copytoram ~350MiB needed.
Maybe, can be added in a near future a switch or hook to download only
*.sfs from http/ftp ;) Now logic parts are split (setup network / pxe
mount hook), so the doors are open for another archiso_pxe_*.
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