Re: NFS and kernel 2.6.x

Marc Singer
2004-04-17T20:22:27Z

On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 09:01:38PM +0200, Daniel Egger wrote:
> On 17.04.2004, at 20:32, Marc Singer wrote:
>
> >I'd be glad to compare TCP to UDP on my system. It's using an nfsroot
> >mount. It looks like the support is there. What activates it?
>
> You need to add at least tcp as parameter to the nfsroot boot option,
> like nfsroot=1.1.1.1:/tftpboot/foo,tcp,v3 .

What I'd like to do is use a command line like this

root=/dev/nfs ip=rarp nfsroot=,tcp,v3

But, it doesn't work. I'd like to let the kernel autoconfiguration
handle the addressing.

> And, of course, if you mount/remount NFS partitions you also need to
> specify the tcp parameter in your fstab.
>
> Servus,
> Daniel