On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 22:05 +0200, Janne Karhunen wrote: > On Monday 04 December 2006 20:21, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > > > > 2) NFS provides persistent storage. > > > > > > To me this sounds like a chicken and an egg problem. It > > > both depends and provides this at the same time :/. But > > > hey, if it's supposed to work then OK. > > > > ??? Locking depends on persistent storage, but persistent storage never > > depended on locking. > > Except for the fact that to be able to mount anything RW you > generally _want_ to have locks. And can't have locks without > the mount. Not that it wouldn't work, it's just that I would > not do it [for obvious reasons].
You just need to be careful to set it up correctly in the initrd: either make sure that you mount the root partition as 'nolock' or else make sure that you mount /var/lib/nfs, and start rpc.statd before you start init and any other applications that might need locking. Trond - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
