From: Mahmood Naderan Subject: Re: sharing some files (and not folders) over NFS Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 07:46:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <395629.71734.qm@web111701.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <416818.76742.qm@web111712.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <1304347223.7830.8.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Reply-To: Mahmood Naderan Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Cc: nfs To: Trond Myklebust Return-path: Received: from nm3.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com ([98.139.91.73]:25432 "HELO nm3.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1759726Ab1EBOqT convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 May 2011 10:46:19 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1304347223.7830.8.camel-SyLVLa/KEI9HwK5hSS5vWB2eb7JE58TQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: >Diskless/NFSroot systems do this all the time Well I have setup diskless nfs but have no idea about that. Can you exp= lain more or give a link on that? =A0 // Naderan *Mahmood; ----- Original Message ----- =46rom: Trond Myklebust To: Mahmood Naderan Cc: nfs Sent: Monday, May 2, 2011 7:10 PM Subject: Re: sharing some files (and not folders) over NFS On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 07:34 -0700, Mahmood Naderan wrote: > Hi, > Is it possible to share passwd, group and shadow files over nfs? > Since a shared folder needs to be defined in /etc/fstab (on the desti= nation), I wonder how can I do that for files? Diskless/NFSroot systems do this all the time. Cheers =A0 Trond --=20 Trond Myklebust Linux NFS client maintainer NetApp Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com www.netapp.com