From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 20 May 2009 21:21:06 +0100 (BST) Received: from smtp23.services.sfr.fr ([93.17.128.20]:25486 "EHLO smtp23.services.sfr.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20023099AbZETUU6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 May 2009 21:20:58 +0100 Received: from filter.sfr.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by msfrf2326.sfr.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 0B223700008D; Wed, 20 May 2009 22:20:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.101] (152.174.71-86.rev.gaoland.net [86.71.174.152]) by msfrf2326.sfr.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 6182E700008B; Wed, 20 May 2009 22:20:52 +0200 (CEST) X-SFR-UUID: 20090520202052399.6182E700008B@msfrf2326.sfr.fr Subject: Re: Bigsur? From: Laurent GUERBY Reply-To: laurent@guerby.net To: Manuel Lauss Cc: Ralf Baechle , Andrew Sharp , Jon Fraser , Andrew Wiley , "linux-mips@linux-mips.org" , "Maciej W. Rozycki" In-Reply-To: <20090520212243.0a023a22@scarran.roarinelk.net> References: <1242663215.18301.26.camel@chaos.ne.broadcom.com> <20090518222334.GD16847@linux-mips.org> <1242735440.6098.101.camel@localhost> <20090519125310.GA17733@linux-mips.org> <20090520110105.6fb81573@ripper.onstor.net> <20090520191618.GA32295@linux-mips.org> <20090520212243.0a023a22@scarran.roarinelk.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 22:21:09 +0200 Message-Id: <1242850869.6098.140.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 22850 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: laurent@guerby.net Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 21:22 +0200, Manuel Lauss wrote: > On Wed, 20 May 2009 20:16:18 +0100 > Ralf Baechle 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