From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 19 01:10:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA21720 for current-outgoing; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 01:10:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kanto.cc.jyu.fi (root@kanto.cc.jyu.fi [130.234.1.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA21715 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 01:10:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (kallio@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kanto.cc.jyu.fi (8.7.2/8.7.2) with SMTP id LAA24540; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 11:09:40 +0300 (EET DST) Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 11:09:40 +0300 (EET DST) From: Seppo Kallio To: Bruce Evans cc: tony@fit.qut.edu.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Bug in NFS In-Reply-To: <199606180740.RAA14812@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 18 Jun 1996, Bruce Evans wrote: > > Bruce, I am of course using the same OS on each machine. Actually I am > > using the wonderfull FreeBSD netboot system to build a diskless client > > system. Since I have no local UFS filesystems its really hard to get a > > working /dev directory. The machine still have a hard drive and I would > > like to put some swap space on it. Hope this makes things clearer. > > Use only devices which have numbers (on the server) < 64K (e.g., wd0b) > and don't manage devices from the client. > > Bruce I am using diskless workstations also. I have local /dev /var /tmp and swap I am mounting the local disk to /dev2/wd0 The /dev is a link to /var/dev The 4 workstations have common root and usr on the server (read only) + user filesystems in 4-5 nfs servers. This seems to work. You have to config xdm (If you use it) so it writes authdata to /var not to /usr The rc needs some modifications to prevent users to boot workstations to single user. Seppo U of Jyvaskyla Finland PS. df from one of workstations: 11:04am@mirri~% df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Mounted on 130.234.40.26:/itu/camelot/root 1713998 1327238 84% / /dev2/wd0a 808558 2974 0% /var procfs 4 4 100% /proc motti.cc.jyu.fi:/opt/ftp 3950689 3589136 99% /opt/ftp motti.cc.jyu.fi:/itu/camelot/usr 1713998 1327238 84% /usr tukki.cc.jyu.fi:/export 1952860 1553465 88% /export laani.cc.jyu.fi:/export/lk 2887229 1831112 70% /export/lk tukki.cc.jyu.fi:/export/opis2 1922325 1610271 93% /export/opis2 kanto.cc.jyu.fi:/export/opis 3939571 3342509 94% /export/opis kanto.cc.jyu.fi:/export/home/kem 1131397 506041 50% /export/home/kem news.jyu.fi:/opt/autounpack 908811 610359 75% /opt/autounpack news.jyu.fi:/opt/news 908811 610359 75% /opt/news news.jyu.fi:/var/spool/news 3939571 2641636 68% /var/spool/news www.jyu.fi:/home/www 3470690 2514518 79% /opt/www tukki, laani, kanto, news run SPARC Solaris, itu, motti, silmu, www run FreeBSD 2.1R Workstations run 2.2-SNAP 960501