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 16:27:03 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1165267623.5698.33.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200612042205.57577.Janne.Karhunen@gmail.com>
On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 22:05 +0200, Janne Karhunen wrote:
> On Monday 04 December 2006 20:21, Trond Myklebust wrote:
>
> > > > 2) NFS provides persistent storage.
> > >
> > > To me this sounds like a chicken and an egg problem. It
> > > both depends and provides this at the same time :/. But
> > > hey, if it's supposed to work then OK.
> >
> > ??? Locking depends on persistent storage, but persistent storage never
> > depended on locking.
>
> Except for the fact that to be able to mount anything RW you
> generally _want_ to have locks. And can't have locks without
> the mount. Not that it wouldn't work, it's just that I would
> not do it [for obvious reasons].
You just need to be careful to set it up correctly in the initrd: either
make sure that you mount the root partition as 'nolock' or else make
sure that you mount /var/lib/nfs, and start rpc.statd before you start
init and any other applications that might need locking.
Trond
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-04 21:27 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
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 [this message]
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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