Hi, We install a different root file system for each roach. We mount shared directories (/software or /data, for example) for common files that we want to access from all roach boards. This setup has worked reliably for us for over a year.
Regards, Melissa On 7/6/11 12:37 PM, "Tom Downes" <[email protected]> wrote: >I'm debating doing that. It's 16 boards, but guaranteed not to grow >much beyond that. And one could symlink boffiles or something so you >don't need to have 16 copies of that, too. > >It seems as though the boot-up complaints about not being able to >write to disk are relatively harmless. > >Tom > >On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:57 PM, John Ford <[email protected]> wrote: >>> For those who care, you are just not supposed to enable eth0 in >>> /etc/network/interfaces. I thought it wasn't showing up in ifconfig >>> without doing that, but I must have been mistaken. >>> >>> Another question: what is the best way of making the NFS filesystem >>> read-only so that the N ROACH boards do not conflict with one another? >>> I modified fstab to have this line: >>> >>> rootfs / rootfs ro 0 0 >>> >>> There are a number of complaints along the way in bootup, however. >>> Would it be better to edit /etc/rcSimple to remount read-only after >>> boot? >> >> We install a different root file system for each roach. Not elegant, >>but >> it works if you only have a few roaches to serve! >> >> John >>
