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From: Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu>
To: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
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Subject: Re: nfsroot mount options
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Chuck Lever wrote:

  OK, Ubuntu doesn't use NFSROOT (the kernel's implementation), it actually
  does a real mount in user space.  So all the normal NFS and generic mount
  options ought to work.

I didn't realize that.  I wonder why, especially since it doesn't work.  So
they pack a copy of nfs-utils in their initrd?  And I could maybe use v4 as
the root?

But if that's the case then I'm getting off topic for this list.  Thanks for
your help.