From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 26 9:33:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8219937B404 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 09:33:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F271E43EAF for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 09:33:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.12.6/8.12.5) with SMTP id gAQHXQBF094920; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 12:33:27 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 12:33:26 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Cosmin Stroe Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Diskless booting with codafs In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Cosmin Stroe wrote: > Is there a codafs diskless booting option available for FreeBSD .. > something similar to the NFS_ROOT option available currently in the > kernel ? > > Is there even CODA fs builtin kernel support ? Unlike many network file systems, Coda relies on a local disk cache, so typically the approach taken is to boot to at least a minimal local file system, then bring in everything else from over the network once Venus (the user space cache manager) is started. If you want to chroot() somewhere in the process so that the perceived root is in /coda, it can be done, but you might have to tweak the boot scripts and init some to make it happen, as well as make sure you re-mount devfs. Coda is currently in the base source tree, although I'm not sure it's been tested much on 5.x. Drop e-mail to shafeeq@FreeBSD.org to find out how things are going, since I'm not sure he tracks the mailing lists much. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message