Date: 06 Oct 2005 12:51:36 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> Cc: f-q questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: md device backing files on nfs mounts? Message-ID: <44oe62zizr.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <67F3ED9B-5977-41E1-BABE-F4F17399EAF6@shire.net> References: <67F3ED9B-5977-41E1-BABE-F4F17399EAF6@shire.net>
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"Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> writes: > Can the files that back an md device be resident on an nfs mount? > > I run some jails with each having its own root based on an md device. > I am thinking of having a backend nfs server have all the storage and > serve it to various front end servers. If one front end server went > down I could easily bring it up on another one. Kind of poor-man's > redundancy How do you get the NFS mount before you have a root? Also, I suspect the permissions might be a little tricky... Some kind of netbooting might work.
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