On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 05:23:55PM +0200, mkolman@redhat.com wrote:
As already mentioned, the installation image has grown and in some scenarios its size can directly impact RAM requirements, as the image needs to be downloaded and held in RAM at installation size (PXE boot with HTTP installation source).�
nbdkit!
nbdkit -U /tmp/sock curl https://... nbd-client -unix /tmp/sock /dev/nbd0 # install off /dev/nbd0, image is demand-loaded over HTTP
It even works if the remote disk is compressed.
Rich.