On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> > If you're NFS-mounting the root filesystem, you need either different > >> > areas per machine, or local disk for workspace, e.g. for /var. > >> /tmp is a local disk partition. > > > >Maybe you might be interested in LTSP, the "Linux Terminal Server Project" > >[1]. They also use a single root filesystem mounted via NFS with a single > >central configuration file. Files that needs to be writeable are in a small > >symlinked ramdisk under /tmp. > > Bah. My initramfs script, a beefed up version of what mkinitrd creates, > _properly_ mounts an nfs and a local disk, merges them to a unionfs and > voila, you get / being an unionfs, without funky symlink hacks like > knoppix, with a writable and persistent layer. If desired, the > local disk is cleared before building the union, effectively making it > a large tmpfs.
Where can we get your script? It looks really interesting. -- Boyd Gerber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
