Re: [9fans] boot via aan from fileserver?

[Axel Belinfante <Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl>]

nemo replied to my question about using aan to boot from fileserver:
> In the mean time you can perhaps reexport your
> worm fs form a cpu server, and use aan on that.
> But I'd say you better switch to fossil. You could
> have used aan directly then.

I'm now trying the reexport approach.
The simplest approach seemed to use import to get /root from
the cpu server, and let import use aan.
However, import -p uses /bin/aan, whereas in the boot trick
I will have /boot/aan.  As work around I added a -P aanprog flag
to import, and hacked the boot code to have a new bootmethod 'tcpaan'
that run's this import to get /root from the cpu server,
in a way similar to fossil is started.

I at least succeeded to boot, and indeed aan is 'in' the connection,
as far as I can see.
I'll just let it run for some days and see what happens.\

Just curious: what network outage would I 'need' to benefit
from aan improved reliability?
(So far, I got the root fs via tcp over cable modem to cpu
 which run trampoline to get to worm fs via il.)

Out of curiousity:
would there have been a simpler way than the on I described above?

And just one remark: once I had been browsing the boot code
enough to be a bit comfortable with its structure,
adding the new boot method turned out to be surprisingly simple
(the fact that all pieces I needed similar code already appeared
 here and there (tcp, fossil boot) of course helped immensely)

Axel.