Re: the root filesystem

[Aphichet Vungyaichim <aphichet@fzi.de>]

Matthew Hoskins wrote:

> Greetings,  I am in the process of creating a diskless root filesystem for a
> project i am involved in... Its a bit larger than most b/c i wanted a "swiss
> army knife"...  Since server space is cheap its about 85M...
>
> But, unlike a lot of rootfs's i've seen this one can be shared across all the
> clients... The "/" dir is mounted ro,  and it maintains an intact rpm database
> on the nfs server  to allow admin to install software in rpm format with the
> --root  option.
>
> When a node boots, It gets its own /var created in a very small ramdisk, just
> large enough mainly for lock files.  Also it gets its own unique /tmp by
> mounting a dir on the server named after the node's IP.  Finally it runs a
> script also named after its ip, this allows different nodes to perform dif
> functions... some can run pvm, some can run scripts written in perl (that was a
> requirement of this project) and some could even be workstations or xterminals,
> provided the correct software is installed...
>
> Does this project sound useful to anyone other than myself?
>
> I'm not using etherboot b/c i dont have access to a prom burner, and Intel
> Management Adapters come with PXE proms that work well enough... But this
> rootfs should work with any 2.2.x version kernel booted over a net..
>
> raphael wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've just install bootp,tftp, and NFS and all work fine, but I've problems
> > to build a root filesystem for my client ( the trickiest part of the setup I
> > guess ! ). I've download a small distribution of i386 linux : Linux-EMbedded
> > and downloaded it in /tftpboot/my_client_name but it doesn't work, although
> > all the required files are here. So, here is my question : how know files
> > required by linux and how configuring them ?
> >
> > Thank you very much for your advices
> >
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Hi,

    I have done somethings like your "swiss army knife". But I couldn't do
somethings like sharing Root filesystem across clients. Your "swiss army knife"
have interested me very much.

    How can I ftp your all Root filesystem?

Regards,
Aphichet


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