Re: NFS Servers, deadlocks and symlinks
Hi elf!
You wrote:
> I'll start with the question(s) for the impatient. Is anyone
> experiencing deadlocks between nfs-kernel-server and ext3? How about
No, not at all. Using 2.4.17 on potato+bunk.
> Starting back on the original project, the Etherboot finally succeeded
> The next discovery was that the newly network-booted machine was
> experiencing NFS errors complaining about too many symlinks. It's
> root filesystem is mounted from server:/tftpboot/seashore which is a
> symlink to /a/dev/sde1/seashore. I wouldn't expect this to be a
> problem. Should I?
No, this shouldn't be a problem. I use the same here
(server:/tftpboot/www.xxx.yyy.zzz symlinked to
/export/netboot/machinename). That works quite well.
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Kind regards,
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