Re: [PATCH] Adds bittorrent support to 45url-lib for live images

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I've gone ahead and created a pull request with a few more changes here:

https://github.com/haraldh/dracut/pull/26

On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 5:34 AM, Harald Hoyer <harald@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 14.08.2014 22:31, Antony Messerli wrote:
>> This patch adds bittorrent support to 45url-lib for those that might want to
>> retrive the same live image for multiple systems at once without
>> saturating the network.
>> This patch requires ctorrent to be installed into initramfs.
>>
>> Torrent kernel command line format:
>> root=live:torrent://image_location/image.torrent
>>
>> Start a tracker:
>> bttrack --bind <tracker_ip> --port 6969 --dfile dstate --reannounce_interval 60
>>
>> Create the torrent:
>> ctorrent -t live_image -u http://<tracker_ip>:6969/announce -s
>> live_image.torrent
>>
>> Seed the initial torrent:
>> ctorrent live_image.torrent
>>
>> Boot the live image.
>> ---
>
> Can you add
>
> inst_multiple -o ctorrent
>
> to module-setup.sh ?
>
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