Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 13:44:04 -0500 (EST) From: Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca> To: Daniel Feenberg <feenberg@nber.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Specifying root mount options on diskless boot. Message-ID: <535791711.18255.1294598644612.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.1101091015070.27086@nber6>
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> Daniel Braniss writes... > > > I have it pxebooting nicely and running with an NFS root > > but it then reports locking problems: devd, syslogd, moused (and > > maybe > > others) lock their PID file to protect against multiple instances. > > Unfortunately, these daemons all start before statd/lockd and so the > > locking fails and reports "operation not supported". > > Are you mounting /var via nfs? You can use the "nolockd" mount option to make locking happen locally in the client. (Only a problem if the file(s) being locked are concurrently shared with other clients.) I don't know if this would fix your diskless problem. rick
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