[Gllug] Knoppix on diskless workstation [Mini-ITX]

[John Winters]

On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 15:00, Jason Clifford wrote:
> On 30 Jan 2003, John Winters wrote:
> 
> > > What is the /var filesystem on each node?
> > 
> > I'm not sure what the intended meaning of this question is but I'll give
> > some information and hope it's the right stuff.
> > 
> > The workstation NFS mounts / and /usr.  The /etc/fstab reads:
> > 
> > 10.3.3.2:/netboot/root  /    nfs defaults 0 0
> > 10.3.3.2:/netboot/usr   /usr nfs defaults 0 0
> > 
> > The two are separate so that /usr can be made ro at a later date.  There
> > is no separate mount of /var.
> > 
> > I'm not sure what you mean by "node".
> 
> I suspect he means that each client system should have it's own /var 
> filesystem. /usr could be shared in common.

Yes, that's the intention.  (Or at least as things currently stand I
intend to have a shared /usr and a unique / for each system.)

Currently though there's only 1 workstation so sharing isn't an issue. 
I'm just puzzled by this locking business and am wondering whether it's
some sort of file-locking facility that NFS doesn't support.

John

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