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added documentation for site overlays

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Signed-off-by: Christian Goll <cgoll@suse.com>
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Christian Goll
2024-11-21 15:03:29 +01:00
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@@ -25,11 +25,17 @@ overlay in two different ways:
The default profile has both a **wwinit** and a **runtime** overlay
configured.
Warewulf distinguishes between **distribution** shipped with warewulf
and **site** overlays which are created by the end user. A **site** takes
always precedence over a **distribution** overlay with the sane name.
Any modification of a **distribution** overlay with ``wwctl`` will create
a **site** overlay with the same name.
The **site** overlays are place normally under ``/etc/warewulf/overlays``.
Overlays are compiled for each compute node individually.
Provided overlays
=================
Provided distribution overlays
==============================
These overlays are provided as part of Warewulf.
@@ -222,7 +228,7 @@ via the ``-o`` flag.
On clusters with large numbers of nodes a significant speedup can be achieved
by building overlays in parallel. Adding parallel overlay building to `wwctl`
is planned, see issue `#1087 <https://github.com/warewulf/warewulf/issues/1087>`_.
Until parallel overlay building is implemented, builds can be easily done in
Until parallel overlay building is implemented, builds can be easily done in
parallel with Gnu `parallel` or `xargs`, for example:
.. code-block:: console