On Thu, 02 Nov 2000 17:06:17 Jeremy Schaeffer wrote: > Hi! I cannot seen to find anyone that can answer why I cannot mount / > (root) via NFS on Mandrake 7.0/7.1. I have three 7.0 Machines, one with > a 2.2.16 kernel , one with a recompiled kernel with CONFIG_ROOT_NFS > turned on, one with the stock kernel and a 7.1 with the stock kernel. > None of them let me mount / , I get > > (logged in as root) > mount -t nfs musha:/ /mnt/misc > mount: musha:/ failed, reason given by server: Permission denied > I suppose that server is refusing to export /. You need some other user space utils, to share roots between boxes. Even I don't know if it is possible. "root on nfs" means that you can have a diskless client kitty that mounts its root from musha:/export/kitty_root, and hope mounts musha:/export/hope_root. That needs net and nfs on the kernel. And is the easy setup. Suppose you want to mount musha:/export/root_for_clients both in hope and kitty, a shared root is not directly possible, there are files that are not read-only and both clients try to write in them (/var mainly). And imagine both the clients and the server at the same time. So the I have seen a special setup tool (i think it includes kernel and user space tools) to build a cluster of diskless nodes. See at http://www.beowulf.org or http://www.mosix.org. -- Juan Antonio Magallon Lacarta #> cd /pub mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] #> more beer
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