BTW using a initramfs for mounting nfs partitions seems to allow you to use a version greater than nfs v2. Presently my stuff is mounting as nfs v3 by default which is nice. I tried all sort of things to get it the normal nfsroot to use a specific version. Set the server to only support 3+, passed kernel options, etc, and nothing worked.
This is the first time I am seeing a diskless system with nfs v3. Not sure if I can do nfs v4. That will require some daemons, and not sure if they will stay running during a switch_root, in theory they might, have to experiment. Also in my Googling on my problems searching for a solution, I came across some talking about nfsroot not being supported directly by the kernel. In the future you might have to use a initramfs to in order to have nfsroot. That is likely a result of deprecation of older versions of nfs that are insecure, lack attributes, etc. Now one of the problems I ran into was with the lockd portion, and thus in the mount command in the init script in the preceding post, containing -o nolock. Though that might not matter much given its a diskless system. Lock or not, no nfs server, machine no function :) -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message. Any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
