From owner-freebsd-current Fri Apr 17 01:15:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA03696 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 01:15:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA03683 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 08:15:06 GMT (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id IAA08485; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 08:34:06 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199804170634.IAA08485@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: Diskless configuration... To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 08:34:06 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199804162225.PAA01446@dingo.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at Apr 16, 98 03:25:31 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hmm. See also: > > http://www.freebsd.org/~msmith/FTL/appnotes/1000.R-BOOTP_TFTP on this one, note that the nfs SWAP PATH is optional, at least 2.2.5 and above do work without NFS swap. My experience is that swap on NFS is ok if the server is nearby, but when i used it on a host 3 hops away, the machine is very sensitive to lost packets and often the machine hangs. > http://www.freebsd.org/~msmith/FTL/appnotes/1010.P-DISKLESS and in this one, if i am not mistaken, the shared root filesystem is not dealt in much detail. The main goal of my document was to give detailed info on exactly this step. Feel free to integrate in your pages above anything you like from my page. cheers luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message