Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 09:27:00 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: peter@netplex.com.au (Peter Wemm) Cc: mb@imp.ch (Martin Blapp), current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: move portmap(8) from /usr/sbin to /sbin Message-ID: <200001121727.JAA28834@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <20000112131030.789A61CD4@overcee.netplex.com.au> from Peter Wemm at "Jan 12, 2000 09:10:30 pm"
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> "Rodney W. Grimes" wrote: > [..] > > So no disk, so just what is it that you are exporting??? > > Just a comment: > > I've seen scenarios where a local disk is attached holding a kernel, > bootblocks loader etc, but otherwise booting from a server over NFS. And > it exported the rest of it's disk for general use... It's easier than > netbooting, allows each machine to contribute disk space to the cluster in > addition to compute cycles, keyboard, screen etc. See other mail about the evilness of cross mounting NFS, this especially applies in a cluster! You can't bloody cold start the beast easily. One way I have seen it worked around is to flag the NFS mounts -background so that they don't hang the boot process. Still evil lurks in these corners of the world... -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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