>Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 15:07:42 -0400
>From: Thomas S Whaples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] SystemImager and nfs-based image
>       repositories?
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>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/07/2006 02:42:18 
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>>My question is has anybody done any experiments trying to use SI this 
>>way?  Clearly I could hack of the autoinstall script to use a different 
>>location for the rsycn server and server the files directly from the 
>>system on which they're stored, but I'm also a big fan of using standard 
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>>things and would rather see more options for SI to support this directly 
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>>but I didn't see any way to specify this type of a configuration.
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>Wwwwelll... if you wanted to, you could rsync off a locally mounted NFS 
>partition, I suppose... assuming the rsync binary that's on the ramdisk 
>supports being run as a daemon (does it?) and you have NFS filesystem 
>support in your kernel (do you?). Then all you'd need to do is to set up a 
>preinstall script to launch it appropriately and set the image server to 
>127.0.0.1 (though you'd still to sync the scripts directory and preinstall 
>scripts and such off the 'real' image server first...)
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>... that's a bit of an ugly little hack, but it's not a DIRTY hack, at 
>least. :)
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you may have misunderstood.  I'm not trying to mount the nfs filesystem 
on the target machine but rather on the image server itself so you have 
something like:

nfs --> imageserver --> target

the data then moves over the network and through the image server to the 
target.  although now that you mention it having the targer mount the 
data would be pretty slick - you wouldn't really even need rsync at that 
point, though you'd need an nfs client.  but if you bypass rsync you'd 
lose the cability of only installing pieces that changed.  interesting 
thought though.

-mark



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