On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 06:06:30PM -0500, Hal Rosenstock wrote: > On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 20:04, Josh England wrote: > > Are there any plans to modify the linux DHCP client so it would be > > possible to do kernel-level DHCP and NFSroot over IB? > > I took a quick look at this and it looks pretty straightforward. Stay > tuned...
I'd say don't. Using initrd/initramfs is a much better solution. At some point the in-kernel dhcp is going to get so buggy and old it's going to get removed. I boot all my cluster systems with NFS root servers, and I'm trying to get everything moved to using Debian packaged kernels with initrd's. With an initrd, you at least have a chance to get a shell and figure out why you couldn't find your nfs server, instead of "kernel panic, I'm going to die now" you get with in-kernel dhcp/nfs. _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
