FAI 4.0.3 for Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise)

[Thilo Uttendorfer]

On Tuesday 21 August 2012 at 13:05:04, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Thilo Uttendorfer
>
> <t.uttendorfer at linux-ag.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I uploaded the current FAI version 4.0.3 to the FAI testing PPA on
> > launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~fai/+archive/testing
> >
> > The packages are not very well tested, but anyway, It's a start. Any
> > feedback is appreciated.
>
> Did you use dracut or initramfs-tools/live-boot for the nfsroot?

I use live-boot.

> I've just had a brief look at the sources of fai 4 and dracut, and to
> my reading, it seems that this combination works only with aufs, which
> has been removed from quantal. I see that you have uploaded to precise
> only, which still has aufs so there is no problem. However, I'm
> looking at fai in quantal, which requires the use of ovlerayfs
> instead.

Never tried dracut, but at least live-boot supports overlayfs since precise:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/live-boot/+bug/961295

But dracut sounds interesting. Will it replace initramfs-tools/live-boot in 
the future?

Thilo


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