On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:53:45 -0300 Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386@yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
On 11/21/2011 04:58 AM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
maybe add some documentation too. like, how does the http/ftp support work (downloads the full image first?) and how does it compare to nbd (less efficient?)
Dieter
* download full image to RAM. This is curl only, not fuse with curlftpfs/httpfs. * compared to nbd, well... much much more memory is needed. Also more memory than when using nbd+copytoram, since copytoram only copies needed *.sfs. So for example if you boot with archiso_pxe_curl and fetch "core-dual.iso", ~700MiB of RAM is needed just for the iso, while using nbd+copytoram ~350MiB needed.
Maybe, can be added in a near future a switch or hook to download only *.sfs from http/ftp ;) Now logic parts are split (setup network / pxe mount hook), so the doors are open for another archiso_pxe_*.
I suggest to document these thoughts in the documentation of archiso. Dieter