Re: Mounting NFS root FS

[Jan Engelhardt]

>It's one use, but another one is for diskless terminals, often built
>from old systems. In this case, it's to avoid the cost, noise, power
>consumption and failures associated to disks. It's quite often done
>one radically different archs/OS between the server and the clients,
>making the upgrade more complicated.

unionfs is becoming popular, and it's one of those things that can't
do without initramfs at all, for example.

>> I have no influence over the distributions' choice of kernel compiler
>> options. The fact is, though, that few of them support nfsroot out of
>> the box. AFAICS FC-6 is one of those that appears not to.

(File a bug report, heh.)

So what, noone supports unionfs OOTB, which leaves me with what options?
Right, hacking it up myself by modifying the initramfs scripts my
distro's mkinitrd gave me.


	-`J'
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