From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Seewer Philippe Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Move actually mounting the root filesystem into its own series of hooks. Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:47:32 +0100 Message-ID: <49A3FA74.50002@bfh.ch> References: <3188506a1f06de54ee7874fc45261f5c2faf9e79.1235283966.git.victor.lowther@gmail.com> <49A301FF.2090303@redhat.com> <1235434056.28090.28.camel@sentry-no.fnordovax.org> <49A3AB75.1010805@bfh.ch> <1235475578.28090.64.camel@sentry-no.fnordovax.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: initramfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Bogdan Costescu Cc: Victor Lowther , Warren Togami , initramfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org Bogdan Costescu wrote: > On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Victor Lowther wrote: > >> My current plan was to try and mount the NFS share forever > > Generally speaking, with any network based share, if you try to mount it > forever you might generate a DoS on the server exporting it, especially > if several computers boot at the same time. That is correct. Although in a nfsroot environment mounting the share "forever" (read: lifetime until shutdown) is a necessity. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html