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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] NFS Boot
From: Kyle Bader <kyle.bader@gmail.com>
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> Would it be better to create a local hard drive swap and file system for
> certain root dir?

Have writable files on local disk and mount them a la "mount --bind
/mnt/local/etc /etc".  You should make a separate partition for local
swap if you have a local disk.

-- 

Kyle