I might try this in another group, as this looks like almost 100% spam.
Can an NFS client mount a file, instead of a directory?
I am trying to get diskless SunOS to work, with either a FreeBSD or Linux server.
On Thursday, September 15, 2016 at 2:19:47 PM UTC-7, J.O. Aho wrote:
On 09/15/2016 06:59 PM, herrmann...@gmail.com wrote:
I might try this in another group, as this looks like almost 100% spam.
Can an NFS client mount a file, instead of a directory?
As far as I ever seen, regardless of SunOS, BSD or Linux, the share is
always a directory and you can either mount the whole directory or a
sybdirectory.
I am trying to get diskless SunOS to work, with either a FreeBSD or Linux server.
It's a long time since I had a Sparc, but back then when I had one (the
model had a flawed IDE chip which made the local disk to be extremely
slow), I used tftp for initial startup and mount the NFS, but back then
there was no support for swap on NFS, so I didn't have a swap, thought I
had enough RAM with 2GB.
NFS swap goes back at least to SunOS 3.5, as that is when I first remember it.
It is nice to have a local swap disk, even if you don't have anything else local,
but I think that is rare.
Thanks for the fast response, I didn't know if anyone read this.
I might try this in another group, as this looks like almost 100% spam.
Can an NFS client mount a file, instead of a directory?
I am trying to get diskless SunOS to work, with either a FreeBSD or Linux server.
It looks like when the client mounts its swap space, it does a mount request on the file name.
As far as I can tell, FreeBSD doesn't like that. I don't have a Sun server running to test.
I still have some of the sparc pizza boxes buried in the basement but haven't >touched them since the late 90's. I think the 1+ and a 5 needed the network >boot but the 10 and 20 had drives in them. Was neat to watch all of them
boot up but really prehistoric these days.
On 09/15/2016 06:59 PM, herrmann...@gmail.com wrote:
I might try this in another group, as this looks like almost 100% spam.
Can an NFS client mount a file, instead of a directory?
As far as I ever seen, regardless of SunOS, BSD or Linux, the share is
always a directory and you can either mount the whole directory or a sybdirectory.
I am trying to get diskless SunOS to work, with either a FreeBSD or Linux server.
It's a long time since I had a Sparc, but back then when I had one (the
model had a flawed IDE chip which made the local disk to be extremely
slow), I used tftp for initial startup and mount the NFS, but back then
there was no support for swap on NFS, so I didn't have a swap, thought I
had enough RAM with 2GB.
Bruce Esquibel <bj...@ripco.com> writes:
I still have some of the sparc pizza boxes buried in the basement but haven't
touched them since the late 90's.
I think only the ELC and SLC (basically an IPC pizzabox mounted on the back of a monitor) had no room for an internal disk; all the others SPARCs did have
an internal disk.
It I put the name of the directory with the swap file in bootparamd, it
looks like it mounts it, but then says 0 bytes swap. If I put the name
of the swap file in, the mount fails.
Now I need init in /sbin. Seems not to like to start if it isn't there.
It I put the name of the directory with the swap file in bootparamd, it >looks like it mounts it, but then says 0 bytes swap. If I put the name
of the swap file in, the mount fails.
How did you create the file? What type of file is it? SunOS does not
like files which are "holey" or seem to be holey, like compressed ZFS
files. And I hope it's < 2GB.
SunOS is such a long ago memory that I can't remember these
specific issues other than that "there was something there".
But when it boots, it notes that there is 0K swap space, if I put the
name of the directory in the swap= parameter in bootparams.
If I put the file name, the mount fails.
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