rocks set host bootflags is not saved in the restore roll

[lclementi]

rocks dump does not backup the bootflags

Should we move this into an attribute so it can be applied also to node which do not exist yet?

Luca

[lclementi]

Hey @ppapadopoulos, I would like to use attributes to specify extra boot parameters for the nodes. In this way we would also get grouping capabilities (e.g.: all compute nodes, all nodes) and they will be included in the restore roll.

I propose to use:

• boot_params: if this attribute is present its value will be appended to the boot parameters of both the OS and the installer
• boot_params_os: if this attribute is present its value will be appended only to the OS boot parameters
• boot_params_install: if this attribute is present its value will be appended only to the installer boot parameters

Any suggestion, issue or comments? Luca

[lclementi]

@tcooper says:

While this can be helpful there may be cases where this is not desirable for example cluster with mixed hardware (ie. Intel and AMD x86-64 compute nodes).

Perhaps more detail is needed to apply this intelligently to appropriate nodes?