On 2014-02-09, Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2014-02-08, Jona Joachim <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello, >> I've been in need for yaifo for quite some time now, so I decided to >> bring up some patches to make it work with -CURRENT. > > Seems like a good time to ask: with the new autoinstall(8) functionality, > do you still need yaifo? > > Are there any small changes to the auto installer that would help the > standard installer replace yaifo in more situations?
I think yaifo is very useful for situations where the machine is in some datacenter where you do not control the network infrastructure and don't have local access. In this case, you do not control the dhcp server (if there is one) and autoinstall cannot work. If autoinstall had the option to read the config files from the local hard drive this could be addressed. One of the advantages of yaifo is also that you can see in real-time if things go wrong during the upgrade and correct the errors (broken mirrors, changes to devices, etc.) autoinstall is definitely a great feature, I haven't tried it out so far. Best regards, Jona
