Has anyone had experience with NFS-mounted root partitions? I've got a working setup (RH6.0 clients), but I'd like to move to RH7 and to improve the setup by making the root "smaller". At the moment each diskless client mounts its own 60MB root partition (rw) and they share a /usr partition (ro). The diskspace is not an issue, but when I want to install or upgrade RPMs on the client machines, I need to patch the changed files on each of the client root partitions. I'd like the machines to NFS mount the *same* (ro) root partition (so they can share the one set of config files), with a small /var partition mounted rw (for e.g. /var/lock). The major problem with this is /etc/fstab, which has the IP-address-dependent root NFS mount details (even though it has to know that to get at /etc/fstab in the first place) and of course /etc/mtab. And there may be other stuff outside /var that is written to (methinks /etc/ntp/drift really ought to be /var/ntp/drift). Any ideas? There might be other problems with the machines not being identical - e.g. different video cards - but I can make /etc/X11/XF86Config a symlink to something on /var. Danny. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- http://dannyreviews.com/ - more than five hundred book reviews http://www.caa.org.au/ - working for an end to poverty http://danny.oz.au/ - free speech, free software, travel, gamelan, ... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
