[Planetlab-devel] [Re: pxeboot]

[Fred Kuhns]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 04:09:17PM -0500, Marc Fiuczynski wrote:
--> Hello Fred,
--> 
--> See comments embedded below.
--> 
--> >Well, maybe ... I guess it depends on what you have in mind. I like  
--> >the idea
--> >of using separate initrd and overlay images, but it would be easy  
--> >enough to
--> >bundle those in say a tar file. You could also have the build  
--> >script place the
--> >node config file on the overlay image (this is what I do manually  
--> >now).
--> 
--> I suppose we could put the plnode.txt file into its own overlay  
--> image.  Should be straightforward and trivial!

To clarify the model I was thinking of ... place a common fielsystem, config
files, scripts etc in the initrd image. Then any files that are node/device
specific place in the overlay image. This could include the ifcfg-* files.

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fred