[Nix-dev] [PATCH] Root filesystem on NFS

[Rickard Nilsson]

Hi Nicolas,

I have updated my nfsmount patch now, so nfsmount is only added to initrd
if nfs is really needed during boot. Would you care to look at it again?

Best regards,
   Rickard Nilsson

Den 2011-08-29 11:25:58 skrev Lluís Batlle i Rossell <viriketo at gmail.com>:

> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 11:01:08AM +0200, Rickard Nilsson wrote:
>> >Thanks for your interest in NixOS.
>> >Feel free to contribute, I'll take pleasure to review your patches.
>>
>> I will polish the nfsmount patch a bit and then submit it again. The
>> network stuff will require some more work before being patch-worthy.
>
> I liked the patch. I don't think it was any harmful, and would enable  
> people to
> use nfs. I would also not mind having an initrd with even more tools  
> beyond
> nfsmount. :)
>
> I've been using nfsroot in some machines, but in those cases, I have not  
> used
> initrd because I did not want to find that nfsmount. :)
> Then I used a special kernel with some compiled in code, so I could use
> "nfsroot=blabla ip=dhcp" for example.
>
> Regards,
> Lluís.
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