Dear SysVinit Maintainers,
I wonder if Debian officially supports NFS root, especially if your
packages do? One might assume so, as when I shutdown my diskless client that
gets its root fs over nfs, a warning is emitted:
not deconfiguring network interfaces: network file systems still
mounted.
which comes from /etc/init.d/networking stop, which comes after
umountnfs stop.
But this particular setup unfortunately hangs by default, with the last
command in rc0 when /sbin/shutdown is called, per default with -i flag
to bring all network interfaces down (sysvinit:ifdown.c) just before
telling the kernel to poweroff. That's because then it seems the kernel
really is unable to umount the root nfs mount and thus doesn't poweroff.
I can workaround this by removing the -i flag from /etc/init.d/halt, but
I wonder if this is really how it is meant to be.
To my further astonishment, it worked from another client (kvm machine)
without removing the -i flag.
What do you think about this? Should initscripts normally work with nfs
root, and can this be considered a bug? Could this be related to my
custom kernel (but the kvm machine was run with the same one, just using
another nic driver)?
Regards,
Jens Stimpfle
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