Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 18 May 1997 08:34:42 -0400 (EDT) | From | (Steven S. Dick) | Subject | Re: initrd and NFS |
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The only objection I can think of to using initrd to nfs mount root is that if you can do an initrd, why bother remounting root? It seems to me, a better solution would be to put the bare essentials in initrd, and then nfsmount /usr and /home (or whatever) and not bother remounting root.
This is what has to be done anyway if you want the NFS mounts to be read only, which is the situation when you have lots of "NFS root" clients. (You'd have a separate root for each machine if you really need it.)
The situation where NFS root is *really* needed badly is on machines that don't have enough ram to use initrd. Otherwise it is somewhat faster to keep root in a ram drive than NFS mount it anyway.
Steve ssd@nevets.oau.org
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