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.

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