#565696 initramfs-tools: Support for AoE

Package:
initramfs-tools
Source:
initramfs-tools
Submitter:
"C.J. Adams-Collier"
Date:
2013-12-30 01:39:07 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#565696#10
Date:
2010-02-24 17:30:15 UTC
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To:
hmm this patch looks clean, not a real objection.

just missing a motivation, why one would want that?
do you have any refines since.

currently not sure why mailine initramfs-tools should care
about aoe or iscsi or fibre channel over ethernet,
but maybe someone else also wants to jump in for support!?

thanks + kind regards
#565696#15
Date:
2010-02-24 17:30:15 UTC
From:
To:
hmm this patch looks clean, not a real objection.

just missing a motivation, why one would want that?
do you have any refines since.

currently not sure why mailine initramfs-tools should care
about aoe or iscsi or fibre channel over ethernet,
but maybe someone else also wants to jump in for support!?

thanks + kind regards
#565696#20
Date:
2010-02-24 17:59:05 UTC
From:
To:
Yeah, I have some revisions.  I don't want that version going in to an
official repository.  Mostly I wanted to open a dialogue.

I'm using the modified version in order to build an initrd for use in a
KVM virtual server.  I did a write-up:

http://wp.colliertech.org/cj/?p=678

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.  I'm wrapping up an unrelated project
at work, but I expect I'll have a bit more time to poke at this in the
near future.

Cheers,

C.J.
#565696#25
Date:
2010-02-24 17:59:05 UTC
From:
To:
Yeah, I have some revisions.  I don't want that version going in to an
official repository.  Mostly I wanted to open a dialogue.

I'm using the modified version in order to build an initrd for use in a
KVM virtual server.  I did a write-up:

http://wp.colliertech.org/cj/?p=678

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.  I'm wrapping up an unrelated project
at work, but I expect I'll have a bit more time to poke at this in the
near future.

Cheers,

C.J.
#565696#30
Date:
2010-02-24 17:59:05 UTC
From:
To:
Yeah, I have some revisions.  I don't want that version going in to an
official repository.  Mostly I wanted to open a dialogue.

I'm using the modified version in order to build an initrd for use in a
KVM virtual server.  I did a write-up:

http://wp.colliertech.org/cj/?p=678

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.  I'm wrapping up an unrelated project
at work, but I expect I'll have a bit more time to poke at this in the
near future.

Cheers,

C.J.
#565696#35
Date:
2010-02-24 17:59:05 UTC
From:
To:
Yeah, I have some revisions.  I don't want that version going in to an
official repository.  Mostly I wanted to open a dialogue.

I'm using the modified version in order to build an initrd for use in a
KVM virtual server.  I did a write-up:

http://wp.colliertech.org/cj/?p=678

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.  I'm wrapping up an unrelated project
at work, but I expect I'll have a bit more time to poke at this in the
near future.

Cheers,

C.J.
#565696#40
Date:
2010-02-25 17:22:47 UTC
From:
To:
cool.

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.

kind regards
#565696#45
Date:
2010-02-24 17:59:05 UTC
From:
To:
Yeah, I have some revisions.  I don't want that version going in to an
official repository.  Mostly I wanted to open a dialogue.

I'm using the modified version in order to build an initrd for use in a
KVM virtual server.  I did a write-up:

http://wp.colliertech.org/cj/?p=678

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.  I'm wrapping up an unrelated project
at work, but I expect I'll have a bit more time to poke at this in the
near future.

Cheers,

C.J.
#565696#50
Date:
2010-02-24 17:59:05 UTC
From:
To:
Yeah, I have some revisions.  I don't want that version going in to an
official repository.  Mostly I wanted to open a dialogue.

I'm using the modified version in order to build an initrd for use in a
KVM virtual server.  I did a write-up:

http://wp.colliertech.org/cj/?p=678

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.  I'm wrapping up an unrelated project
at work, but I expect I'll have a bit more time to poke at this in the
near future.

Cheers,

C.J.
#565696#55
Date:
2010-02-25 17:35:38 UTC
From:
To:
That sounds like a better idea.  I'll try to set up an iSCSI root VM as
well.

Cheers,

C.J.
#565696#60
Date:
2013-12-30 01:36:24 UTC
From:
To:
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!

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
#565696#63
Date:
2013-12-30 01:36:24 UTC
From:
To:
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!

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