Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 12:04:45 +0100 (MET)
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>,
       William Estrada <MrUmunhum@popdial.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Mounting NFS root FS
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>It's one use, but another one is for diskless terminals, often built
>from old systems. In this case, it's to avoid the cost, noise, power
>consumption and failures associated to disks. It's quite often done
>one radically different archs/OS between the server and the clients,
>making the upgrade more complicated.

unionfs is becoming popular, and it's one of those things that can't
do without initramfs at all, for example.

>> I have no influence over the distributions' choice of kernel compiler
>> options. The fact is, though, that few of them support nfsroot out of
>> the box. AFAICS FC-6 is one of those that appears not to.

(File a bug report, heh.)

So what, noone supports unionfs OOTB, which leaves me with what options?
Right, hacking it up myself by modifying the initramfs scripts my
distro's mkinitrd gave me.


	-`J'
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