On 11/21/2011 08:55 AM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:53:45 -0300
Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi<[email protected]> wrote:
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_*.
I suggest to document these thoughts in the documentation of archiso.
Dieter
Yes but README is just a reference, a better explanation/tutorial must
go to wiki.
DRAFT is comming in fews days, (also for recent archiso_pxe_nfs)...
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Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
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