Re: Diskless NFS mounts weirdness

2005-02-15 Thread Erik Norgaard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 05:20:32PM +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: Yes, it's 5.3-STABLE and /etc/rc.d/var is really the culprit! Thanks for the hint. Now everything makes sense again. Bth, this script has three modes: YES, NO, AUTO, auto is default in which the check is done:

Re: Diskless NFS mounts weirdness

2005-02-15 Thread Erik Norgaard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 05:20:32PM +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: If the md-based /var is only needed until the nfs /var is mounted, I could try tweaking the varsize knob in /etc/rc.conf, right? Yes, 1kb should be enough ?! The interesting thing is that mounttab is only creat

Re: Diskless NFS mounts weirdness

2005-02-15 Thread cpghost
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 05:20:32PM +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >1. /var *is* actually mounted on > > 192.168.122.1:/pool/diskless_rw/192.168.122.11/var > > but it is not listed in mount(8)s output. Why? > > > >2. Which part of the system created /dev/md0 and mou

Re: Diskless NFS mounts weirdness

2005-02-15 Thread Ean Kingston
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> 1. /var *is* actually mounted on >>192.168.122.1:/pool/diskless_rw/192.168.122.11/var >>but it is not listed in mount(8)s output. Why? >> >> 2. Which part of the system created /dev/md0 and mounted that >>on /var? I don't need that and would like to save

Re: Diskless NFS mounts weirdness

2005-02-15 Thread Erik Norgaard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. /var *is* actually mounted on 192.168.122.1:/pool/diskless_rw/192.168.122.11/var but it is not listed in mount(8)s output. Why? 2. Which part of the system created /dev/md0 and mounted that on /var? I don't need that and would like to save some RAM anyway.

Diskless NFS mounts weirdness

2005-02-15 Thread cpghost
Hi, I've set up a pool of diskless workstations loosely following the instructions in http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/09/30/diskless_clients.html Everything runs just fine, except for one weirdness with mount and /var: % mount 192.168.122.1:/var/diskless_ro on / (nfs, read-only) devfs on