Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2018 22:27:40 +0200 From: Philipp Vlassakakis <freebsd-en@lists.vlassakakis.de> To: Daniel Feenberg <feenberg@nber.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: NFS + ZFS - Base System readonly Message-ID: <0595E83D-5E70-44B1-ACB5-A84261FB4A6D@lists.vlassakakis.de> In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.21.1808131752400.11589@sas1.nber.org> References: <82BCE4D6-69DF-49E0-8648-4E9F3767D089@lists.vlassakakis.de> <alpine.LRH.2.21.1808130836490.19407@sas1.nber.org> <C8E16E51-CE9E-45C4-8BCC-735AD18F3F1E@lists.vlassakakis.de> <alpine.LRH.2.21.1808131752400.11589@sas1.nber.org>
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Is there a way to have a separate passwd file for each client and not to use the one of the template? I want to set up independent machines with different users. (NIS is not an option) Regards, Philipp > On 13. Aug 2018, at 23:54, Daniel Feenberg <feenberg@nber.org> wrote: > > > We have been using zfs for the exported OS partitions (indeed for all FreeBSD partitions) for many years now with no problems. NFS speed is pretty much the same as a local hard disk. > > Daniel Feenberg > > On Mon, 13 Aug 2018, Philipp Vlassakakis wrote: > >> Hi Daniel, >> >> it’s working, thanks. >> Now I still have to make some changes to the configuration files, fixing entropy-file per host etc. but so far it looks very good. >> Do you also use NFS? If so, what is your speed? >> Did you tried ZFS already? >> >> Thanks again! :) >> >> Regards, >> Philipp >> >>> On 13. Aug 2018, at 14:42, Daniel Feenberg <feenberg@nber.org> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> 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" >>>> >>
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