Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 08:47:21 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: nfs and almost diskless question Message-ID: <XFMail.000425084721.mj@isy.liu.se>
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I have recently set up a lab of 12 freebsd boxes and a central server. I rely on amd to mount the user's home on an as needed basis. I did not install the sources on the clients as I thought it would be enough to have them as a central resource and only nfs-mount them as neccessary. I have not tried this but I cannot see why it should not work: Graft the server's /usr/src onto a client, do a make buildworld and installworld. Umount /usr/src and mount it on the next client, do only a make installworld hereafter. This ought to be an easy way of keeping the clients STABLE. Along the same vein: I do not like the idea of nfs-mounting /usr as many commands would have to be fetched from the server, giving lots of network traffic. But, should I, in the future want to upgrade, say, emacs, I do not like the prospect of going to every single machine and install it. If said emacs was accessed via nfs I would have to make the change in only one place. Has this been done? What has to be mounted? What has not? /usr/local/bin is an obvious mount candidate as is /usr/local/lib, perhaps even the entire /usr/local? Are these sufficient? Where do I go from here? It looks a bit like the diskless pages in the handbook, where only / and swap is on the local harddisk and /usr is mounted from elsewhere. But I don't relly want to mount all of /usr - or should I rather want to do that? (perhaps it is the easy way out?) Tips and tricks of the trade are much welcomed! /Micke ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 3.4 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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