Re: NFS rooting current root

[Andrew Cady <d@jerkface.net>]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 09:21:29PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> are there any opinions on risks and benefits of exporting my
> server root (/boot, /etc, /usr, /dev, /sys) read-only to the
> client that provides just /var and does an nfsroot mount of
> the read-only exported one??
> 
> Thanks for any hands-on experience hints.

I've done this before.  Unfortunately debian doesn't like a read-only
root.  The way I made it work was to mount --bind read-write copies of
all the files on root that needed to be rw, or the files I just needed
to be different on the client than the server, very early in the boot
process.  After that it worked, except that NFS randomly died so much I
gave up on it.