non-squashed filesystem
El Wednesday 06 February 2008 11:40:08 Chris Fanning va escriure:
> Thanks Jordi, that was what I was looking for.
You are welcome,
I have tested the plain filesystem in a standalone computer,
that is an AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+, a powerful processor, 2 GB of RAM and a
disc sata II at 7200 rpm,
Debian live is lenny with squashfs v3.2, does not use lzma.
in that machine squashfs outperforms the plain filesystem in 10% better
perfomance for squashfs,
Someone has measured network performance ?
>
> > El Tuesday 05 February 2008 15:44:09 Chris Fanning va escriure:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm new on the list but I have had some success using casper on etch.
> > >
> > > We would like your opinion on a cluster setup that we're think of.
> > > The idea is to boot all diskless servers over the network using a
> > > single filesystem image.
> > > Does that sound like a good idea?
> >
> > I dont have measures about that, but in the practice creating and using
> > live S.O.'s the delay of decompressing the image is not significant. But,
> > there is a little delay mounting it,
> > I believe that the gain for the processor to not use a squashfs image can
> > be lost by the server reading more data on the disk and transporting it
> > by the network,
> > When the latest squashfs with lzma does work, squashfs will become even
> > more faster.
> >
> > > We have managed to do it in the workshop using a squashed filesystem,
> > > but we would like to avoid the overhead and use instead a non-squashed
> > > filesystem.
> > >
> > > I've been trying to do it, but I'm not having much luck.
> > > How is it done?
> >
> > create a filesystem in a live path is easy,
> > make a directory in the live media path with the extension .dir and copy
> > there all the OS.
> >
> > mkdir -p live/filesystem.dir
> > cp -av chroot/* live/filesystem.dir/
> >
> > a file named filesystem.squashfs is not required, live-initramfs search
> > for compressed files and directories with predefined extensions and any
> > name. In this manner that decompressed filesystem should work,
> >
> > > Thanks.
> > > Chris.
> > >
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