Re: [OSR-devel] Latest Preview

[Gordan B. <go...@bo...>]

On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:16:49 +0100, Marc Grimme <gr...@at...> wrote:
> 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?
>
> Did you try the version uploaded today?

Yes, the one I tried was yum updated at about 1pm GMT.

> 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"

Ah, OK, I didn't check for that, thanks. :)

Gordan