From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cambridgebroadband.com (mailhost.cambridgebroadband.com [217.204.121.83]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AA2FDDDF4 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 21:44:25 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <45CAFEF0.6020408@cambridgebroadband.com> Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 10:44:00 +0000 From: Alex Zeffertt MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Ng Subject: Re: multiple devices using ELDK NFS mounts References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on Embedded PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , 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