[Fedora-packaging] ltsp root directory

[Patrice Dumas]

On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 06:07:31PM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > 
> > Mostly NFS mounted root FS for terminals;
> Hmm, I don't fully understand (I have no clues about ltsp), so let me
> ask for details:
> 
> * Are these mount-points or root-filesystems to be mounted (== constant
> data)?

Yes they are constant from the client point of view. But they may be
modified on the server.

> * Is this data which customizable (== configurable)?

This is a complete filesystem, in this filesystem there is a full FHS
tree.

> * Is this data which is automatically generated or constant data to be
> shipped as part of rpms.

It is generated. Plan is more or less to install rpms in the direrctory
like a chroot.

> * Is this automatically regenerated?

The plan is to install it as a rpm chroot, but it will also be
configurated, with a file in the *ltsp5/i386/etc/ltsp.conf or the like
holding information for all the hosts using this root filesystem.

> * Is this data machine dependent?

It is an arch dependent chroot (depending on the terminal hardware), 
so there will be 
*/ltsp5/i386
*/ltsp5/ppc
....

> Depending on the answers to these questions even a directory
> below /etc/ltsp or /usr/share/ltsp or %{_libdir)/ltsp could make sense.

It is a full filesystem with its own /etc, /usr/share and so on and so
forth. It is more similar with mock chroots in my opinion. With the
difference that these chroots are to be NFS exported.

> >  possibly NBD swapfiles too.
> Dunno what NBD is, but this sounds like volatile data.

It may hold the swap partition of the terminal, nbd is the protocol
used to transparently use it from the terminal, although it is on
another host (NBD is Network Block Device).

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Pat