AOE support (was: Re: FAI and debian live)

2009-01-23 Thread Daniel Baumann
Jean Spirat wrote: >>> ii live-initramfs 1.139.1-3 Debian >>> Live initramfs hook > > in theory it is a debien lenny ... :( > so if this is not the good one i have a problem !! i will check. 1.154.5-1 migrated today, however, before that, 1.154.3-1 was the versi

Re: FAI and debian live

2009-01-23 Thread Jean Spirat
i was just saying that i've no clue about it. with nfs, i have some :) eheh ;) ii live-initramfs 1.139.1-3 Debian Live initramfs hook shouldn't make any difference here, but in future, could you use the most current one from sid (preferably) or at

Re: FAI and debian live

2009-01-23 Thread Daniel Baumann
Jean Spirat wrote: > no in fact i cannot use NFS for policy reason here. ok. > AOE is a block device so i don't know why it could not be used :) i was just saying that i've no clue about it. with nfs, i have some :) > ii live-initramfs 1.139.1-3 Debian > Live

Re: FAI and debian live

2009-01-23 Thread Jean Spirat
in fact this is where my AOE mount fails, the system ends up read only and the aufs part is not working. i've absolutely no clue about AOE. i'm not even sure it's possible with current live-initramfs. did you try regular nfs based netboot first? no in fact i cannot use NFS for policy

Re: FAI and debian live

2009-01-20 Thread Daniel Baumann
Jean Spirat wrote: >> There are no plans to use more features of debian live. I heared that >> live-initramfs will be split into more packages in the future, so we >> may need less parts from it. jup. the essential things (searching and mounting rootfs, setting up rw layer) will stay in live-initr

Re: FAI and debian live

2009-01-20 Thread Jean Spirat
a forward from some talk with the FAI guys.. perhaps you can help me here :) FAI only needs the live-initramfs package which provides the functions to boot from network, mounts the root file system via NFS and adds aufs (another unionfs) on top of it. Using aufs we have write access to all f