Re: LTSP 5.3 will be tagged tomorrow at 19:00 UTC

Στις 16/02/2012 09:40 πμ, ο/η Michael Shigorin έγραψε:
> Erm, wouldn't mv on overlay (rw is overlay, right?) increase
> memory consumption?

Indeed, but I think the few Kb wasted there are justified wrt the 
benefits the new init-ltsp.d system gives us:
  * The ability to avoid ltsp-build-client. E.g. someone with a mac lab 
and an i386 server can install a distro locally to a client, then 
install the ltsp-client package and finally just rsync the result to the 
server.
  * The ability to administer ltsp chroots as real systems. E.g. one can 
maintain a fat client "chroot" inside virtualbox or qemu, using his 
favorite DE instead of an `ltsp-chroot` based command line. Also some 
packages fail to upgrade in chroots, and while these are bugs that need 
to be solved, using VMs instead of chroots takes the bug-fixing burden 
off of LTSP users.
  * Upgradable ltsp chroots. Previously, ltsp-build-client operated 
destractively, deleting files and services in chroots. Those files could 
come back on package upgrades, causing problems and preventing chroot 
distro upgrades.
  * The abitily to decide dynamically, on boot, which services/files we 
want to disable or not. E.g. we may not want network manager on thin 
clients to save RAM, but we may want it on fat clients to manage VPN 
connections.

There are more benefits but I'd better go back to coding as precise has 
a featurefreeze deadline today... :D

Btw in 2-3 occasions I did some changes to the debian/ubuntu parts of 
the code and then later on I happened to grep through the sources and 
saw that altlinux already did it the same way. We should try to converge 
more! :)

Cheers,
Alkis

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