Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 10:32:48 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Feenberg <feenberg@nber.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Specifying root mount options on diskless boot. Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.64.1101091015070.27086@nber6>
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Daniel Braniss writes... > I have it pxebooting nicely and running with an NFS root > but it then reports locking problems: devd, syslogd, moused (and maybe > others) lock their PID file to protect against multiple instances. > Unfortunately, these daemons all start before statd/lockd and so the > locking fails and reports "operation not supported". Are you mounting /var via nfs? We have been running FreeBSD diskless for several years, and have never run into this problem - but we use a memory filesystem. The memory filesystem can be quite small. Our methods are documented at http://www.nber.org/sys-admin/FreeBSD-diskless.html If that isn't the problem, can you guess what we are doing differently to avoid it? I note that the response to your message from "danny" offers the ability to pass arguments to the nfs mount command, but also seems to offer a fix for the fact that "classes" are not supported under PXE: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/90368 I hope "danny" will offer a patch to mainline code - it would be an important improvement (and already promised in the documentation). (I am sorry if this doesn't thread properly - I just joined the list after seeing the message). The thread is available at: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-January/060854.html Daniel Feenberg
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