On Tue, Apr 19, 2016, at 07:47 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > one feature that I've been working on in duffy is to allow users to > provide their own kickstart. That way you can request a node, submit a > new kickstart against it and then wait out the 5 - 8 minutes it takes > to re-deploy; that way duffy does not need to block, and we dont need > to change the hot-standby configs Right. > the plan was to have atomic host available in the cloud environ, i > should have that setup ( based on david's work ) for testing soon. OK, but having it available in Duffy would solve my immediate issue too, since due to the default partitioning it's a lot easier to carve out space post-boot. Regarding the tmpfs and transient node discussion: http://miroslav.suchy.cz/blog/archives/2015/05/28/increase_mock_performance_-_build_packages_in_memory/