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Re: nfsroot ro




Ken Yap wrote:
> 
> >May I have nfsroot read-only ?
> >
> >var and tmp is on local hd or ramdisk, login do not work, can't open tty
> >for /dev/tty1
> 
> The login process is probably trying to chown /dev/tty1, which is on
> your nfsroot. One way to allow the root fs to be ro would be to put the
> files that need to be mutable on a ramdisk.

That's exactly what we have done with LTSP.  We create a ramdisk
and mount it on /tmp, then we have symbolic links in the /dev directory
pointing to the device nodes in /tmp.

Jim McQuillan
jam@ltsp.org


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