Diskless & Thin Systems

[Jason Straight]

On Monday 20 March 2006 12:33, Martin Kreiner wrote:
> /etc/exports:
>
> /nfsroot             clientiporhostname(rw,no_root_squash,async)
>
> i say this is a bad idea...
> the right approach for a "out-of-the-box" diskless client would be a ro
> shared nfs and unionfs.
> further on a unionfs flag would be usefull for "standard" installations as
> well, e.g.:
> a user would be able to try some new software/settings without making any
> permanent changes on his system.

Yes, I'm working on this now, trying to mount / on a unionfs from initrd now. 
It's funny, for so many years I've though that someone needs to make 
something like unionfs for just this reason but I didn't even know it 
existed. :) Thanks for the heads up.


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