On Monday 01 Oct 2012 14:22:41 Thomas Bächler wrote: > IMO, root file systems on NFS are a failure by design anyway - I worked > in such a scenario for years and it is a bad bad bad idea. While we > should fix easy problems such as this one, we should not spend too much > time on making this work. I'd be really interested in your reasons for this. I'm running a network- booted cluster, and things seem much easier using NFS for this than it would be to have a hard disk in each node and use puppet (or similar) for administration. Paul