From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 7 5:18: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web12907.mail.yahoo.com (web12907.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CE11837B41A for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 05:18:04 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20011107131804.26314.qmail@web12907.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [210.80.136.159] by web12907.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 08 Nov 2001 00:18:04 EST Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 00:18:04 +1100 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Paul=20Jansen?= Subject: NFS 'read only' speed tricks? To: questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm currently messing with a disless configuration of FreeBSD and it's coming along quite nice. I'm mounting a read-only NFS '/usr'. I though that I could take a heap of load of the poor server machine by creating a copy of '/usr' in RAM as an MFS and then sharing this out instead of the actual '/usr' volume. Obviously if I share the mount point via '/etc/exports' while there is nothing underneath it it won't complain - I just won't see anything when I mount that export remotely. I am a relative UNIX newbie but I reckon the tool I need is 'cpio'. Can someone give me some pointers here? I'm more than likely to read the man page for 'cpio' in the morning but it'd be nice to hear any confimations/suggestions. Thanks, Paul http://briefcase.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Briefcase - Manage your files online. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message