liteimg - Modify statelite image by creating a series of links.
liteimg [-h| --help]
liteimg [-v| --version]
liteimg [-o OS] [ -p profile] [-a architecture] [-t rootfstype]
liteimg imagename
This command modifies the statelite image by creating a series of links. It creates 2 levels of indirection so that files can be modified while in their image state as well as during runtime. For example, a file like <$imgroot>/etc/ntp.conf will have the following operations done to it:
mkdir -p $imgroot/.default/etc
mkdir -p $imgroot/.statelite/tmpfs/etc
mv $imgroot/etc/ntp.conf $imgroot/.default/etc
cd $imgroot/.statelite/tmpfs/etc
ln -sf ../../../.default/etc/ntp.conf .
cd $imgroot/etc
ln -sf ../.statelite/tmpfs/etc/ntp.conf .
When finished, the original file will reside in $imgroot/.default/etc/ntp.conf. $imgroot/etc/ntp.conf will link to $imgroot/.statelite/tmpfs/etc/ntp.conf which will in turn link to $imgroot/.default/etc/ntp.conf
Note: If you make any changes to your litefile table after running liteimg then you will need to rerun liteimg again.
imagename specifies the name of a os image definition to be used. The specification for the image is storted in the osimage table and linuximage table.
-h Display usage message.
-v Command Version.
-o Operating system (fedora8, rhel5, sles10,etc)
-p Profile (compute,service)
-a Architecture (ppc64,x86_64,etc)
-t The type of rootfs for the image (nfs, ramdisk). It is optional, nfs is used to be the rootfs type when -t is not specified.
0 The command completed successfully.
1 An error has occurred.
1. To lite a fedora8 image for a compute node architecture x86_64 enter:
liteimg -o fedora8 -p compute -a x86_64
/opt/xcat/bin/
This command is part of the xCAT software product.