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Date:      Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:25:57 +0300
From:      Sergey Kandaurov <pluknet@gmail.com>
To:        Matt Burke <mattblists@icritical.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Installworld broken with an NFS /tmp
Message-ID:  <CAE-mSOK1qWSXcnhXkGin=UB%2B=yS7KsVPhcLJOeR_q%2BrzoFCfdw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4F17DE31.3060409@icritical.com>
References:  <4F17DE31.3060409@icritical.com>

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On 19 January 2012 13:11, Matt Burke <mattblists@icritical.com> wrote:
> I've found the following thread from 2009 which matches what I've just come
> across while trying to install 9-RELEASE to disk on a machine with an NFS root.
>
> http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/current/2009-07/msg00084.html
>
> I've just worked around this by nullfs mounting the local disk's /tmp over
> the existing (nfs) /tmp, but is there a better way of doing this - an
> environment variable to specify an alternate to /tmp perhaps?
>

To "solve" the sillyrename problem visible during installworld,
I just add the following to rc.conf (nfs) once and for all:

tmpmfs="YES"
varmfs="YES" # why? probably needs for /var/tmp

-- 
wbr,
pluknet



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