From: Alex Zeffertt <ajz@cambridgebroadband.com>
To: Daniel Ng <daniel_ng11@lycos.com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: multiple devices using ELDK NFS mounts
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 10:44:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45CAFEF0.6020408@cambridgebroadband.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20070208T072135-902@post.gmane.org>
Daniel Ng wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am working on multiple ELDK devices. So far, I just have one copy of the ELDK
> NFS mount per device. This gets unwieldly when we have more than a few devices,
> especially considering the size of one NFS mount being over 800Mb.
>
> Can you suggest a more efficient way? Something like sharing part of a single
> NFS mount across multiple devices? Or some other way?
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel
>
I assume you are mounting the NFS as the *root* filesystem, and you don't want the
devices to overwrite eachothers files.
Why not build a ramdisk root filesystem and boot that. Then mount the NFS filesystem
somewhere else, e.g. /usr. This is very well described in the ELDK wiki.
Alex
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-08 6:29 multiple devices using ELDK NFS mounts Daniel Ng
2007-02-08 10:44 ` Alex Zeffertt [this message]
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2007-02-08 13:04 Fillod Stephane
2007-02-09 0:46 ` Wolfgang Denk
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