On Tue, 2014-07-08 at 17:22 +0200, Thomas Lange wrote: > Automate everything. Write a shell script that calls fai-make-nfsroot > and then the commands for adjusting your nfsroot or use > the nfsroot hooks defined with NFSROOT_HOOKS. See man nfsroot.conf for > more info.
Another option is a configuration management system, such as cfengine or puppet. Having such a system in place will help with many other system management tasks as well. For historical reasons, I use cfengine 2 (please note that cfengine 3 is incompatible with it), but if you have no existing management system yet, I recommend looking at puppet as the first choice. There may be other alternatives as well. When I rebuild my nfsroots (I have 32 and 64 bits separate, since we still have some 32-bit-only hardware) I only need to re-run "cfagent" and it installs all necessary local customizations into appropriate locations. Toomas
