Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 20:56:59 -0400 (EDT) From: CMU Mail Archive <archive@cps.cmich.edu> To: A boy and his worm gear <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposal for mountd change Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950629205140.10984A-100000@cps201> In-Reply-To: <199506270130.VAA02111@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>
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On Mon, 26 Jun 1995, A boy and his worm gear wrote: > This makes it impossible to use FreeBSD to completely support diskless > booting of SunOS 4.x machines (I'm not sure if Solaris 2.x has the > same requirements). Yes it does sorta ;) > > Anyway, I'd like to find a way around this. I'm wondering if it > would be possible to add a run-time option to mountd to loosen > the 'directories only' restriction to include plain files. This is > just an idea at this point -- I haven't had the chance to test it. > I'm not even certain that twisting mountd's arm is the only thing > that's required. I had this working with the old mountd code EXCEPT that the fact that FreeBSD doesn't have rpc.statd and rpc.lockd caused the Sun to cough and die in a BAD TRAP. Since the mountd code has been changed for the new NFS code there is a '-r' (I think :) that allows the mounting of a file rather than a directory. The only problem I have found so far is that the Sun's don't like this and puke mounting any of their system from the FreeBSd machine then. I am at a stage in which I can test the diskless booting of Sun's with code until it works correctly EXCEPT the problem of not have rpc.statd and rpc.lockd on the server. If anyone knows where there is source for statd and lockd for any system I am more than willing to work on the rpc code. As far as NFS goes I don't like this new nfs 3 bit that has been placed into -current it breaks some of our sun mounts around here and doesn't like to talk to the linsux client here either anymore. Thanks Matthew S. Bailey Systems Programmer Journey Communications.
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