From: Laurent GUERBY <laurent@guerby.net>
To: Manuel Lauss <mano@roarinelk.homelinux.net>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>,
Jon Fraser <jfraser@broadcom.com>,
Andrew Wiley <debio264@gmail.com>,
"linux-mips@linux-mips.org" <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>,
"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: Bigsur?
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 22:21:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1242850869.6098.140.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090520212243.0a023a22@scarran.roarinelk.net>
On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 21:22 +0200, Manuel Lauss wrote:
> On Wed, 20 May 2009 20:16:18 +0100
> Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:01:05AM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote:
> >
> > > Question: are machines that must be NFS-root and tftp booted acceptable
> > > or not acceptable for such work? The machines in question would 750MHz
> > > Sibyte 1250s, so 3 Gigabit ports natively, and 2 serial consoles.
> >
> > For many uses that will be decent but there are still a few things out
> > there that don't quite work the same way on NFS that they do on other
> > filesystems and that tends to break some software and autoconf-like
> > things. I'd probably give such a config a 90% score - good for most stuff.
>
> I rebuilt a whole Gentoo system from scratch natively over an NFSroot--
> it was actually very painless; add distcc and the time to wait is a
> lot shorter.
One of the farm machine is a Marvell sheevaplug with root over NFS
(gentoo based with marvell.git kernel) and it does multi user
compilations all day long with no issue so far.
Laurent
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-20 20:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-16 3:14 Bigsur? Andrew Wiley
2009-05-18 14:13 ` Bigsur? Ralf Baechle
2009-05-18 16:13 ` Bigsur? Jon Fraser
2009-05-18 16:31 ` Bigsur? David Daney
2009-05-18 17:23 ` Bigsur? Maciej W. Rozycki
2009-05-18 17:28 ` Bigsur? Markus Gothe
2009-05-18 19:02 ` Bigsur? Imre Kaloz
2009-05-18 19:37 ` Bigsur? Jon Fraser
2009-05-18 22:23 ` Bigsur? Ralf Baechle
2009-05-18 22:47 ` Bigsur? Maciej W. Rozycki
2009-05-19 12:17 ` Bigsur? Laurent GUERBY
2009-05-19 12:53 ` Bigsur? Ralf Baechle
2009-05-20 18:01 ` Bigsur? Andrew Sharp
2009-05-20 19:16 ` Bigsur? Ralf Baechle
2009-05-20 19:22 ` Bigsur? Manuel Lauss
2009-05-20 20:21 ` Laurent GUERBY [this message]
2009-05-20 23:17 ` Bigsur? Ralf Baechle
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