Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 22:56:51 +0200 From: Philipp Vlassakakis <freebsd-en@lists.vlassakakis.de> To: Daniel Feenberg <feenberg@nber.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS + ZFS - Base System readonly Message-ID: <C8E16E51-CE9E-45C4-8BCC-735AD18F3F1E@lists.vlassakakis.de> In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.21.1808130836490.19407@sas1.nber.org> References: <82BCE4D6-69DF-49E0-8648-4E9F3767D089@lists.vlassakakis.de> <alpine.LRH.2.21.1808130836490.19407@sas1.nber.org>
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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" >>help
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