Re: [OSR-devel] Latest Preview

[Marc G. <gr...@at...>]

On Wednesday 25 February 2009 15:54:13 Gordan Bobic wrote:
> First of all, I'd like to say that the latest update that only probes the
> @driver listed modules seems to be working great. It has made the startup
> process much more stable and much, much faster on the clusters that I
> tested it on. :)
>
> One thing that doesn't seem to have made it into the update, though, is the
> parallel gzip mod. Shall I write a patch for auto-detecting the presence of
> pigz on the system and using that instead of gzip, if available?
>
> Gordan
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Did you try the version uploaded today? There should be an option to change 
the binary to use gzip.

It's the compression_cmd and opts. I didn't test it but I think it should 
do ;-) .

Take the version comoonics-bootimage-1.4-6 (should be the most recent, 
uploaded today).

[root@axqad102_2 boot-scripts]# cat /etc/comoonics/comoonics-bootimage.cfg
#****h* comoonics-bootimage/comoonics-bootimage.cfg
#  NAME
#    comoonics-bootimage.cfg
#    $id$
#  DESCRIPTION
#    Configurationfile for the Comoonics bootimage
#  AUTHOR
#    Marc Grimme
#
#*******

# Size of the ramdisk defaults to 85536
# size=85536

# mountpoint to mount the loop-dev to. Defaults to ${TMPDIR}/initrd.mnt.XXXXXX
# mountpoint=$(mktemp -d /tmp/initrd.mnt.XXXXXX)

# force to overwrite the image. Default is to ask
# force=0

# kernel what kernel to take. Default is $(uname -r)
# kernel=$(uname -r)

# dep_filename is the file where all dependent files are to be taken from
# default is /etc/comoonics/bootimage/files-$(uname -r).list
dep_filename=/etc/comoonics/bootimage/basefiles.list

#
# rpm_filename is the file where all dependent files are to be taken from
# default is /etc/comoonics/bootimage/rpms.list
rpm_filename=/etc/comoonics/bootimage/rpms.list

#
# what compression tool should be used
compression_cmd=gzip
# what options will be passed to command in order to create archive
compression_opts="-c -9"

# default lockfile points to
lockfile="/var/lock/mkinitrd.lck"


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Marc Grimme
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