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From: Hans-Peter Jansen <hpj@urpla.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Janne Karhunen" <janne.karhunen@gmail.com>, MrUmunhum@popdial.com
Subject: Re: Mounting NFS root FS
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 23:27:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200612072327.24570.hpj@urpla.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <24c1515f0612040351p6056101frc12db8eb86063213@mail.gmail.com>

Am Montag, 4. Dezember 2006 12:51 schrieb Janne Karhunen:
> 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 .. ?

Out of curiosity: what's the rational of mounting multiple diskless nodes on 
one rw nfs root filesystem [with locking in place]? 

In my experience, this results in a big mess. I depend heavily on diskless 
setups, where I spent significant time to provide sharing as much data as 
possible between the clients _without_ further interference. The best setup 
I found to get there is using unionfs (which still has issues, mostly due 
to missing/broken mmap support).

Pete

      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-12-07 22:27 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
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 [this message]

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