Re: Multiple Clients

[kimo_sabe@atdot.org]

On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 01:53:10PM +0200, Dvir Oren wrote:
> 
> >   Yes you can do it, and it work's great. We have a lab of 11 systems
> > booting out of the same NFSroot. There are, of course a few little
> > thing you need to handle. First off, yes, ramdisks. Only /tmp,
> > /var/tmp, and /var/run really need them. If you want to run gdm, or
> 
> One technical issue:  How do I make the filesystem point to a 
> ramdisk only for these directories?  Will symbolic links work over 
> the NFS?
  Just mount the ramdisks onto those directories in your init
scripts(/etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh is where we do it)
  As for sizes, the default 4M ramdisks seem to work just fine. Linux
doesn't appear to allocate the ram until it's allocated on the disk, so the
three ramdisks don't suck up more than 100k of ram in our nominal booted
state.
  - Nick Lopez
    kimo_sabe@atdot.org
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