From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 21 07:11:01 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A315016A41F for ; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 07:11:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from norgaard@locolomo.org) Received: from strange.daemonsecurity.com (62-15-217-181.inversas.jazztel.es [62.15.217.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DC8643D55 for ; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 07:10:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from norgaard@locolomo.org) Received: from [172.24.8.84] (generic.atosorigin.es [212.170.156.200]) by strange.daemonsecurity.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 712322E01E; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 09:10:57 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4331077C.80005@locolomo.org> Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 09:10:52 +0200 From: Erik Norgaard User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050824) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: kevin stovall References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Diskless Boot Problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 07:11:01 -0000 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