From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: Janne Karhunen <janne.karhunen@gmail.com>
Cc: MrUmunhum@popdial.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Mounting NFS root FS
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:29:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1165246177.711.179.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <24c1515f0612040351p6056101frc12db8eb86063213@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 13:51 +0200, Janne Karhunen wrote:
> On 12/2/06, William Estrada <MrUmunhum@popdial.com> wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I have been trying to make FC5's kernel do a boot
> > with an NFS root file system. I see the support is in the
> > kernel(?).
>
> Is this really properly possible (with read/write access and
> locking in place)? AFAIK NFS client lock state data seems
> to require persistent storage .. ?
1) Yes, but not on the root partition (unless you use an initrd to start
rpc.statd before mounting the NFS partition).
2) NFS provides persistent storage.
Trond
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-04 15:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-02 19:03 William Estrada
2006-12-02 19:07 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-12-02 21:15 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-12-02 21:56 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-12-02 22:55 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-12-03 2:37 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-03 6:02 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-12-03 7:05 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-03 8:30 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-12-03 11:04 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-12-03 16:59 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-04 11:51 ` Janne Karhunen
2006-12-04 15:29 ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
2006-12-04 17:12 ` Janne Karhunen
2006-12-04 18:21 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-04 20:05 ` Janne Karhunen
2006-12-04 21:27 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-05 0:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-12-04 20:03 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-12-04 20:27 ` Janne Karhunen
2006-12-04 20:47 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-05 18:43 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-12-05 19:37 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-05 19:59 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-12-05 20:12 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-01-27 14:47 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-12-07 22:27 ` Hans-Peter Jansen
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