FAI 4.0.3 for Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise)

Reinhard Tartler siretart at gmail.com
Tue Aug 21 16:57:24 CEST 2012


On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Thomas Lange
<lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de> wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:57:42 +0200, Thilo Uttendorfer <t.uttendorfer at linux-ag.com> said:
>
>     > 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?
> Yes, dracut is the default when calling fai-make-nfsroot in FAI
> 4.x. fai-cd is not yet working with dracut, but it shouldn't be that
> hard to fix this.

Thomas, can you please give me a pointer about how dracut is
integrated in fai-make-nfsroot? I wonder what place decides what
dracut modules are in place. Or differently, if I copy your aufs patch
in dracut to support overlayfs, where to decide if aufs or overlayfs
is to be used for nfsbooting?

-- 
regards,
    Reinhard


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