From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 6 16:58:14 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 CF2D116A41F for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 16:58:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (hobbiton.shire.net [166.70.252.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9261B43D49 for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 16:58:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from [67.161.222.227] (helo=[192.168.99.68]) by hobbiton.shire.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.51) id 1ENZ4P-0001uJ-MZ for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2005 10:58:13 -0600 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v734) In-Reply-To: <44oe62zizr.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <67F3ED9B-5977-41E1-BABE-F4F17399EAF6@shire.net> <44oe62zizr.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <380986F7-B6AA-4F66-88FE-722D45E1AC80@shire.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 10:58:13 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.734) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 67.161.222.227 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: chad@shire.net X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on hobbiton.shire.net); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Subject: Re: md device backing files on nfs mounts? 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: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 16:58:14 -0000 On Oct 6, 2005, at 10:51 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" writes: > > >> Can the files that back an md device be resident on an nfs mount? >> >> I run some jails with each having its own root based on an md >> device. >> I am thinking of having a backend nfs server have all the storage >> and >> serve it to various front end servers. If one front end server went >> down I could easily bring it up on another one. Kind of poor-man's >> redundancy >> > > How do you get the NFS mount before you have a root? Just the jails would be on md devices on the nfs mounted filesystem. Ie, main computer boots normally, mounts nfs filesystem, then mounts md devices backed by files on the nfs fielsystem Chad > Also, I suspect the permissions might be a little tricky... > > Some kind of netbooting might work. > --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad@shire.net