Version 0.5 ----------- Most of the settings of the script have been moved to a configuration file. Depending on the ./configure options, the location of this file might be /etc/default/ganeti-instance-debootstrap or /usr/local/etc/default/ganeti-instance-debootstrap. The cache generation and cleaning variables can be modified as follows: - to enable generating the cache, modify the config file and set GENERATE_CACHE to "yes" - to disable cleaning the cache, set CLEAN_CACHE to ""; or alternatively, you can customize with this variable the number of days after which to clear the cache Note that the cache file is no longer stored in the same directory as the OS definition files, but (again depending on ./configure options) usually under /var/cache/ganeti-instance-debootstrap. There are many other customuizable settings added in this version, for example the actual OS to be installed (no longer always installing Debian Etch), whether to use a proxy or not, etc. See the README and the 'defaults' files. Version 0.4 ----------- This version fixes the problem of interface renaming at instance import time, by removing the saved udev hotplug rules (if any). Version 0.3 ----------- The OS will cache the image of the first instance it installs using the name "cache-$arch.tar" (where $arch is what dpkg --print-architecture returns) on a node-by-node basis. This cache will be then used on the future installs, speeding them greatly (even with a fast mirror). Feel free to remove the cache at any time, or to copy it to all nodes. The cache will be kept for two weeks, after which the first install will recreate the cache (in order not to use old packages). If you don't care about package age, remove the user write permission (chmod u-w) from the cache and ganeti will continue to use the same file without refreshing it. If you don't have enough space and don't want cache creation, just touch the file 'no_cache' - this will prevent the creation, but the script will continue to use a cache if it exists (but it will remove an existing one after two weeks). Also note that if the image file is there, the script does not need network access at all.