From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 24 23:47:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26E4937B59B for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 23:47:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mj@isy.liu.se) Received: from lagrange.isy.liu.se (lagrange.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.127]) by isy.liu.se (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e3P6lMx01463 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 08:47:22 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 08:47:21 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: nfs and almost diskless question Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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