From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Aug 13 13:00:12 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 F2C3F1071D75 for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2018 13:00:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from feenberg@nber.org) Received: from mail2.nber.org (mail2.nber.org [198.71.6.79]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73A4B780A3 for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2018 13:00:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from feenberg@nber.org) Received: from sas1.nber.org (sas1.nber.org [198.71.6.89]) by mail2.nber.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id w7DCgEl8029032 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 13 Aug 2018 08:42:15 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from feenberg@nber.org) Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 08:42:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Feenberg To: Philipp Vlassakakis cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS + ZFS - Base System readonly In-Reply-To: <82BCE4D6-69DF-49E0-8648-4E9F3767D089@lists.vlassakakis.de> Message-ID: References: <82BCE4D6-69DF-49E0-8648-4E9F3767D089@lists.vlassakakis.de> User-Agent: Alpine 2.21 (LRH 202 2017-01-01) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-KLMS-Rule-ID: 1 X-KLMS-Message-Action: clean X-KLMS-AntiSpam-Status: not scanned, disabled by settings X-KLMS-AntiSpam-Interceptor-Info: not scanned X-KLMS-AntiPhishing: Clean, 2018/08/09 19:19:10 X-KLMS-AntiVirus: Kaspersky Security 8.0 for Linux Mail Server, version 8.0.1.721, bases: 2018/08/13 06:33:00 #8764576 X-KLMS-AntiVirus-Status: Clean, skipped 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: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 13:00:12 -0000 On Mon, 13 Aug 2018, Philipp Vlassakakis wrote: > Hi, > > 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? > > 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. We have been doing this for many years, for a score of systems. We have a detailed description of our procedures at: http://www.nber.org/sys-admin/FreeBSD-diskless.html It works very well for us. Good luck. Daniel Feenberg NBER > > Is this possible? > > Thanks, > Philipp > > _______________________________________________ > 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" >