Re: on sending a kerberos keytab to the client machine

2012-09-25 Diskussionsfäden Michał Dwużnik
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 4:41 PM, David Magda wrote: > On Tue, September 25, 2012 03:02, Toomas Tamm wrote: > > > Getting all this data into machine-readable form and onto your FAI > > server may well involve a lot more manual labour than typing an unique > > secret into each machine at install ti

Re: on sending a kerberos keytab to the client machine

2012-09-25 Diskussionsfäden David Magda
On Tue, September 25, 2012 03:02, Toomas Tamm wrote: > Getting all this data into machine-readable form and onto your FAI > server may well involve a lot more manual labour than typing an unique > secret into each machine at install time... [...] Depending on your hardware vendor, it may be possi

Re: FAI performance

2012-09-25 Diskussionsfäden Michał Dwużnik
Hi Denny [...] > "My config space is indeed in order of 10GB :> " > > If you have to transfer ~10GB to several clients at the same time, and you > are not satisfied with the speed (NFS / tar ...) you should reconsider the > underlying protocol. I red month ago an article to use bittorrent to > tr

Re: FAI performance

2012-09-25 Diskussionsfäden Denny Schierz
Am 25.09.2012 um 10:07 schrieb Thomas Neumann : >> so it would be better, to use ftp to transmit the big files. > two different entvironments and didn't know about the glory of revision > control systems. Tar'ing and copying 500MB of data gets old quite fast.] because: [...] "My config space is

Re: FAI performance

2012-09-25 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Neumann
> so it would be better, to use ftp to transmit the big files. Why? [I have to admit using http to transfer the base-images to the install clients. But this was when I had to sync the config space between two different entvironments and didn't know about the glory of revision control systems. Tar'

Re: on sending a kerberos keytab to the client machine

2012-09-25 Diskussionsfäden Toomas Tamm
On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 23:07 +0200, Michał Dwużnik wrote: > > Combination of e.g. service tag, disk serial number and memory module > serials seems reasonably close to being unique and immutable. Getting all this data into machine-readable form and onto your FAI server may well involve a lot more