Re: Sharing NFS file system (making it read only)

[August Hörandl <hoea@gmx.at>]

Dvir Oren wrote:
> 
> I want to share the same file system for all of my etherboot clients.
>  I realize that some parts have to be different, and I intend to create
> ramdisks for them, and mount them.
> 
> However, if I make the NFS file system read only, I come across a
> lot of problems:
> 
> 1.  I need /dev to be rw.
> 2.  I can't have /etc/passwd (and the related files) read only, if I
> want to add users, etc.  I can't have them link to somewhere else,
> passwd claims that it can't lock them.
> 
> Has anybody succeeded in making the file system read only?  I'm
> finding it extremely difficult.

you could try my solution at 
  http://elina.htlw16.ac.at/~hoerandl/nfs-root/

Gustl

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August Hörandl                          august.hoerandl@gmx.at
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