On 12/11/2012 05:15 AM, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm not sure who's actually in charge of oversight on the Wiki, but I'd > appreciate a little input from anyone, really. > > I've recently been trying to ensure the accuracy of the wiki with regards to > diskless booting. I run a cluster at work, and I've spent quite some time > looking into getting this system functioning correctly, and I wanted to make > sure the documentation was there for others to use. I was looking for information like this a week or two ago. I realized I don't do any nfsroot testing before submitting patches, and I have submitted patches in the past that accidentally broke it :(. > > However, another (presumably well-intentioned) contributor has rewritten the > original article, and seems very keen to cut back everything he doesn't agree > with. To be honest, I'm a bit sick of trying to convince him that all > information is helpful, and that not everyone that reads the article will have > his usecase. > > In particular, he's keen to remove all references to NFSv3 (although Arch > doesn't currently support booting NFSv4 without his hack), and needing a > separate /var for each node (which I've explained is necessary in many, if not > most, situations). This would have tripped me up. I wouldn't have thought to only test on v3 or to make a separate /var for each client... - Bryan > > I'd appreciate someone taking a look at the talk page and article history. > (I'm Giddie on the wiki.) If it's decided I'm wrong, I'm fine with that. I'm > just keen for the wiki to be as helpful as possible, and I don't think that's > the case right now. > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_Installation_Guide > > Help appreciated, > Paul
