From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Aug 18 20:27:50 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C9741074C27 for ; Sat, 18 Aug 2018 20:27:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-en@lists.vlassakakis.de) Received: from dd14614.kasserver.com (dd14614.kasserver.com [85.13.136.14]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2166D74880 for ; Sat, 18 Aug 2018 20:27:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-en@lists.vlassakakis.de) Received: from [192.168.3.57] (p5496E1D0.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.150.225.208]) by dd14614.kasserver.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 13ACB43C0311; Sat, 18 Aug 2018 22:27:41 +0200 (CEST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 11.5 \(3445.9.1\)) Subject: Re: NFS + ZFS - Base System readonly From: Philipp Vlassakakis In-Reply-To: Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2018 22:27:40 +0200 Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <0595E83D-5E70-44B1-ACB5-A84261FB4A6D@lists.vlassakakis.de> References: <82BCE4D6-69DF-49E0-8648-4E9F3767D089@lists.vlassakakis.de> To: Daniel Feenberg X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3445.9.1) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.27 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2018 20:27:50 -0000 Is there a way to have a separate passwd file for each client and not to = use the one of the template? I want to set up independent machines with different users. (NIS is not = an option) Regards, Philipp > On 13. Aug 2018, at 23:54, Daniel Feenberg wrote: >=20 >=20 > We have been using zfs for the exported OS partitions (indeed for all = FreeBSD partitions) for many years now with no problems. NFS speed is = pretty much the same as a local hard disk. >=20 > Daniel Feenberg >=20 > On Mon, 13 Aug 2018, Philipp Vlassakakis wrote: >=20 >> Hi Daniel, >>=20 >> it=E2=80=99s working, thanks. >> Now I still have to make some changes to the configuration files, = fixing entropy-file per host etc. but so far it looks very good. >> Do you also use NFS? If so, what is your speed? >> Did you tried ZFS already? >>=20 >> Thanks again! :) >>=20 >> Regards, >> Philipp >>=20 >>> On 13. Aug 2018, at 14:42, Daniel Feenberg = wrote: >>>=20 >>>=20 >>>=20 >>> On Mon, 13 Aug 2018, Philipp Vlassakakis wrote: >>>=20 >>>> Hi, >>>>=20 >>>> has anyone experience in mounting a base system via PXE + NFS as = readonly and then mount ZFS datasets r/w on top of the base-system? >>>>=20 >>>> I would like to boot a basesystem (which is stored on a NFS share) = via PXE and mount ZFS-Datasets on top of that, so i can rollout specific = configs (hostname, services...) per Host and give user the ability to = edit config files (apache, mysql...) and store data on the ZFS-disks, = which will not be wiped due to a Host reboot. >>>=20 >>> We have been doing this for many years, for a score of systems. We = have a detailed description of our procedures at: >>>=20 >>> http://www.nber.org/sys-admin/FreeBSD-diskless.html >>>=20 >>> It works very well for us. Good luck. >>>=20 >>> Daniel Feenberg >>> NBER >>>=20 >>>>=20 >>>> Is this possible? >>>>=20 >>>> Thanks, >>>> Philipp >>>>=20 >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>>> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>>>=20 >>=20