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Date:      Wed, 19 Jun 1996 11:09:40 +0300 (EET DST)
From:      Seppo Kallio <kallio@cc.jyu.fi>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        tony@fit.qut.edu.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Bug in NFS
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.92.960619105806.22471B-100000@kanto.cc.jyu.fi>
In-Reply-To: <199606180740.RAA14812@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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On Tue, 18 Jun 1996, Bruce Evans wrote:

> >  Bruce, I am of course using the same OS on each machine. Actually I am
> >  using the wonderfull FreeBSD netboot system to build a diskless client
> >  system. Since I have no local UFS filesystems its really hard to get a
> >  working /dev directory. The machine still have a hard drive and I would
> >  like to put some swap space on it. Hope this makes things clearer.
>
> Use only devices which have numbers (on the server) < 64K (e.g., wd0b)
> and don't manage devices from the client.
>
> Bruce

I am using diskless workstations also.

I have local /dev /var /tmp and swap

I am mounting the local disk to /dev2/wd0

The /dev is a link to /var/dev

The 4 workstations have common root and usr on the server (read only) +
user filesystems in 4-5 nfs servers.

This seems to work. You have to config xdm (If you use it) so it writes
authdata to /var not to /usr

The rc needs some modifications to prevent users to boot workstations to
single user.

Seppo
U of Jyvaskyla
Finland

PS.

df from one of workstations:

11:04am@mirri~% df
Filesystem                       1K-blocks     Used         Mounted on
130.234.40.26:/itu/camelot/root    1713998  1327238    84%  /
/dev2/wd0a                          808558     2974     0%  /var
procfs                                   4        4   100%  /proc
motti.cc.jyu.fi:/opt/ftp           3950689  3589136    99%  /opt/ftp
motti.cc.jyu.fi:/itu/camelot/usr   1713998  1327238    84%  /usr
tukki.cc.jyu.fi:/export            1952860  1553465    88%  /export
laani.cc.jyu.fi:/export/lk         2887229  1831112    70%  /export/lk
tukki.cc.jyu.fi:/export/opis2      1922325  1610271    93%  /export/opis2
kanto.cc.jyu.fi:/export/opis       3939571  3342509    94%  /export/opis
kanto.cc.jyu.fi:/export/home/kem   1131397   506041    50%  /export/home/kem
news.jyu.fi:/opt/autounpack         908811   610359    75%  /opt/autounpack
news.jyu.fi:/opt/news               908811   610359    75%  /opt/news
news.jyu.fi:/var/spool/news        3939571  2641636    68%  /var/spool/news
www.jyu.fi:/home/www               3470690  2514518    79%  /opt/www

tukki, laani, kanto, news run SPARC Solaris, itu, motti, silmu, www run
FreeBSD 2.1R Workstations run 2.2-SNAP 960501




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