From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NWF37-0000uz-VW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:15:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5F482E0853; Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:14:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36BFDE0853 for ; Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:14:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C901B67EE9 for ; Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:14:34 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.018 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.018 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.419, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id E7awbSLZorzN for ; Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:14:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A3A56525A for ; Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:14:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NWF2N-00008u-0T for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:14:23 +0100 Received: from adsl-69-234-176-135.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.176.135]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:14:22 +0100 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-176-135.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:14:22 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: NFS Boot Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:14:00 -0800 Message-ID: References: <255666A2AACE1B41BD0BCA8BEAAFD8590429CC01@EXVS01.hostedexchange.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-176-135.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20100116 Thunderbird/3.2a1pre In-Reply-To: <255666A2AACE1B41BD0BCA8BEAAFD8590429CC01@EXVS01.hostedexchange.com> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: a4011856-2fb3-4227-a2d7-90e8076643c6 X-Archives-Hash: 0272df726b8218b472077bfafc8a350a On 01/16/2010 08:32 AM, Mikie wrote: > Hello, > > I am converting an Ubuntu 9.10 to NFS boot by coping files to the NFS > root. > > My question is: > > Would it be better to create a local hard drive swap and file system for > certain root dir? > > Should Tmp be local rather than on the NFS root? I'm no expert on the subject, but I'm interested in the answer too. I'm thinking it may depend on your reason for wanting to boot from NFS. One big reason for network booting is for diskless workstations, but it seems you plan to keep the existing drive(s) in that machine? In that case I would choose to make the NFS boot fs read-only and put any writeable fs on the local disk -- but again that would depend on your reasons for making the change in the first place. But I await more informed opions than mine.