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    SubjectRe: Mounting NFS root FS
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    On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 13:51 +0200, Janne Karhunen wrote:
    > On 12/2/06, William Estrada <MrUmunhum@popdial.com> wrote:
    > > Hi guys,
    > >
    > > I have been trying to make FC5's kernel do a boot
    > > with an NFS root file system. I see the support is in the
    > > kernel(?).
    >
    > Is this really properly possible (with read/write access and
    > locking in place)? AFAIK NFS client lock state data seems
    > to require persistent storage .. ?

    1) Yes, but not on the root partition (unless you use an initrd to start
    rpc.statd before mounting the NFS partition).

    2) NFS provides persistent storage.

    Trond

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