On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:13:02 +0800, wdk@moriah wrote:

> Have two here - disk less atoms as mythtv front ends - seems a common
> use case in the mythtv world.  And another advantage is they sidestep
> the whole /user mess :)

I've tried that in the past. Now I use the internal disk on the Acer
Aspire Revo. They are inaudible when mounted behind the TV and less
complex than messing with PXE. Once the frontend is loaded, the disk can
go to sleep anyway, it's hardly needed after that.

> On 20/03/2012, at 7:49, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote:


> > I was thinking here more of /usr mounted -t nfs
> > 
> > root on nfs client != root on nfs server
> > 
> > hence the need for rootsquash.
> > 
> > But these days that setup is becoming a niche thing, the last one I
> > saw was in a university lab and I've never actually admined one
> > myself.

That is the sort of edge case where an initramfs is justifiable since you
already have a relatively complex setup.


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