Hi everyone. I've setup a PXE/boot environment with the most recent Solaris release (I'm happy to use OpenSolaris too, thus this posting), and it works well. I've got /usr mounting read-only, and my machine (called dcswitch118) mounts read-write out of /export/root/dcswitch118.
My question is: is it possible to mount dcswitch118's root file system (/) read-only as well? I have 70+ machines that need to netboot, and I'd like to have a single root file system served over NFS read-only, and then for all the files that the machine needs to modify/create (in /tmp, /var/tmp, /var, /etc, etc) they would be stored in a tmpfs/ramfs on each individual machine. Thus, all my machines would be stateless, and as I add new nodes I don't have to manage a ton of machine-specific NFS mountpoints. I have successfully set this up with Linux machine by mounting /tmp with tmpfs, and then using "mount --bind" to bind-mount any writable files from the tmpfs to where they belong. (For example, /etc/fstab is bound to /tmp/etc/fstab). Any thoughts or suggestions? Thanks! -George Porter -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ install-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss
