From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
Cc: Laurent GUERBY <laurent@guerby.net>,
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 20:16:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090520191618.GA32295@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090520110105.6fb81573@ripper.onstor.net>
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.
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-20 19:16 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 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2009-05-20 19:22 ` Bigsur? Manuel Lauss
2009-05-20 20:21 ` Bigsur? Laurent GUERBY
2009-05-20 23:17 ` Bigsur? Ralf Baechle
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