Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 12:34:34 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, robert@ml.erje.net Subject: Re: Possibility for FreeBSD 4.11 Extended Support Message-ID: <200612281134.kBSBYY3F044568@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <20061227154716.GA4907@iphouse.com>
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Robert Joosten wrote: > > > In that case you can savely mount with the -L option > > (a.k.a. "-o nolockd"), an everything will just work. > > No need for rpc.lockd at all. > > Hmm, yes. Fiddling in etc/fstab and /etc/rc.d/initdiskless didn't help. > Where am I expected to fiddle to enable this ? In the place where the mount happens. It depends on how your PXE clients are set up, i.e. when they mount which file systems. When I set up a bunch of disklesse clients, I configured them to mount the root file system read-only (the kernel does this via the various "BOOTP" options), and the rest via /etc/fstab. In that case the -L option should be put in /etc/fstab, like this: fsrv:/exp/client01/var /var nfs rw,nosuid,-L 0 0 I'm afraid I don't know how to specify any mount options for the root file system when mounting it via the kernel's BOOTP options, but if you mount it read-only (or just treat it as read-only), then it's not necessary anyway because nothing will try to lock something on it. Make sure that all writable directories (/tmp, /var, /home etc.) are separat from the root file system, i.e. either local (mdfs for /tmp, for example) or mounted via /etc/fstab. Best regards Oliver PS: I never use initdiskless and friends, but rather brew my own diskless setup. YMMV. -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "To this day, many C programmers believe that 'strong typing' just means pounding extra hard on the keyboard." -- Peter van der Linden
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