[arch-releng] [RFC] one more step forward to become archiso as self-pxe-server...

[Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi]

On 12/03/2011 10:20 AM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:
> On 12/03/2011 07:17 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote:
>> Am 03.12.2011 02:08, schrieb Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi:
>>>> I don't see the point in adding FTP - HTTP is superior in any way. 
>>>> Other
>>>> than that: Our .sfs images are rather tiny, you will barely notice the
>>>> difference, so no objections from me.
>>>>
>>> OK, I will only add darkhttp. If HTTP works then also FTP will work 
>>> from
>>> the point of view of the hook.
>> Indeed. My concerns with FTP again:
>> 1) gPXE/iPXE do not support FTP as it seems (only HTTP).
> Yes. Support it. but is normally not built-in, like HTTPS.
>
> Note: gPXE is not activelly maintained. I still use gpxe because of 
> the nice online generator.
> iPXE is the active a fork. Indeed qemu switched to iPXE in this year.
>> 2) In general, FTP is more problematic from the network point-of-view,
>> as it needs to open two connections.
>> 3) HTTP is more stable than FTP from my experience.
> I agree.
>
> I will remove the word FTP from the README and the wiki. Just let the 
> user to discover that:
> "hey it use curl!, so I can use FTP HTTPS  and others....."
>
> What do you think about rename hook archiso_pxe_curl -> archiso_pxe_http
> and also bootparm archiso_curl_url= -> archiso_http_srv= ?

Also maybe "get the complete iso via http then loopmount" can be removed 
(this was the first RFC implementation of boot via http). Now that we 
have the posibility of fetch only needed *sfs and unified directory 
tree, doing such the looks a bit irrelevant.

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Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
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