From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: kyron-PfIpIgFSuk5Wk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NFSv4 and nfsroot
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:09:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1216213771.7786.7.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <487D7230.2050404-PfIpIgFSuk5Wk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 23:59 -0400, Eric Thibodeau wrote:
> I've set up nfsroot based systems before but I am now attempting to do
> the same thing using nfsv4 using the _in-kernel_ nfsroot support (ie: no
> initrd with script that does the mounting). I have been unable to find
> "authoritative" references to how to accomplish this and wanted to ask
> for solid references before I start polluting the mailing list with my
> probably completely erroneous approach. Things that might be worth
> mentioning:
nfsroot for NFSv4 is not supported. You can still do it by using an
initrd file in order to bootstrap the necessary user-space utilities
like the idmapper (and possibly rpc.gssd) before mounting the partition
and pivoting.
Cheers
Trond
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2008-07-16 3:59 NFSv4 and nfsroot Eric Thibodeau
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2008-07-16 13:09 ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
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