Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 09:10:52 +0200 From: Erik Norgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org> To: kevin stovall <kevinstovall@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Diskless Boot Problem Message-ID: <4331077C.80005@locolomo.org> In-Reply-To: <BAY101-F37817A2EDEFB497C9343F5CF940@phx.gbl> References: <BAY101-F37817A2EDEFB497C9343F5CF940@phx.gbl>
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kevin stovall wrote: > Thanks for responding and sorry it took me so long to respond. I am > still having the same problem that I was. / is mounted through nfs. Do > you know if the dhclient does the same as you described in 6? Also, I > think that they did away with mfs in version 6. you should (and have?) mount / read-only, then mount /var either as a mfs or nfs mounted read-write. If there is no writable /var, dhclient cannot store the lease - this is true both in 5.x and 6.x. If you look through /etc/rc.d/var (there is an equivalent one for tmp) you will see it has three modes: yes, no and auto. If set to yes, a mfs /var partition is created, if auto, the startup scripts will check if there is a writable /var, if not, then an mfs /var is created - this is default. There are good reasons for using mfs for /tmp and /var, as well as for not: by using mfs you have no cleanup, and no personal data is disclosed if logout causes a reboot every time. However, in particular for /var there are data that is usefull to keep: IIRC latex stores generated fonts there. If you have an mfs /var then the problem mentioned should not cause nfs-mounts to be lost because the lease is stored in the mfs. But if /var is an nfs mount then you may have a problem. I sent a problem report on this, it was closed because I didn't get back on it. Reason is that I haven't had time to set up diskless FBSD6 environment. So, I'm not sure, however, if you include output from the terminal (yes I know it's tideus to copy), I can see if I can interpret it. Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: www.daemonsecurity.com/ca/8D03551FFCE04F06.crt Subject ID: 9E:AA:18:E6:94:7A:91:44:0A:E4:DD:87:73:7F:4E:82:E7:08:9C:72 Fingerprint: 5B:D5:1E:3E:47:E7:EC:1C:4C:C8:3A:19:CC:AE:14:F5:DF:18:0F:B9
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