Bug#565696: initramfs-tools: Support for AoE
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 06:22:47PM +0100, maximilian attems wrote:
> > Basically, the idea is to make it possible to do diskless virtual
> > machines with a minimum of fuss. I can't think of any easy way to make
> > all the moving parts fit together.
We've been experimenting with AoE for use with LTSP, and Alkis wrote a
simple initramfs-tools local-top script which loads a the aoe module when
root=/dev/etherd/e*, and then the "local" script can mount the device like any
other block device:
https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ltsp-upstream/ltsp/ltsp-trunk/view/head:/client/Debian/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/aoe_ltsp
There's nothing really ltsp-specific about it, though.
It would seem more appropriate to be in initramfs-tools directly, as it doesn't
require any userspace utilities; there aren't really any existing AoE-related
packages that would make sense to add a single script to.
Interestingly enough, you don't even need IP networking for a remote root
filesystem!
> well i could ship it in examples section then AoE people would
> just have to copy over or you could add it to a special aoe package.
>
> iscsi or such seems in wider use, thus higher priority,
> don't know if exerternal package does provide some boot scripts.
iSCSI seems a bit more complicated to set up. That said, I don't see support or
non-support for iSCSI as a reason to exclude AoE.
live well,
vagrant
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