[Pkg-ltsp-devel] Bug#466467: ltsp-server: ltsp-update-image does not work

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block 466467 469338
block 466467 465183
thanks

On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 07:59:47PM +0100, José L. Redrejo Rodríguez wrote:
> Tried with 2.6.22 from lenny. I've tried also with 2.6.24 but it's not
> been possible because of #469338.

and now squashfs has a similar blocking bug: #465183

getting NBD, unionfs and squashfs all consistantly to a decent state in
debian/unstable and debian/testing has proved challenging... so i've
been working on alternatives :)

just committed a plugin in upstream ltsp to create an ext2 image and
with the initramfs-tools nbd hooks, plus LTSP's tmpfs + bind mounts it
seems to work reasonably well, with some speed improvment over NFS.

also, i've been playing with NBD's copy-on-write support... it's got a
few issues that need working out (#470851 and #470963), but i'm hopeful.
this approach is all server-side, so nothing needs to be writeable on
the thin-client (which frees up some ram).

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  vagrant