On Dec 1, 2010, at 7:18 PM, Jim Rees wrote: > If I boot diskless with nfsroot, why is the root file system mounted > readonly? This makes sense for a file system on disk, since it may have to > be checked before remounting rw, but I don't see why this is needed for > nfsroot. > > Also, Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt says that only nfs options > can be given on the kernel nfsroot option, but I've seen a claim that you > can also put "rw" here. Are other generic options possible? How about the > nfs options that aren't listed in the doc? Should the doc be updated? What kernel version are you looking at? I think 2.6.37-rc has some nfsroot updates that allow all NFS options to be used. Not sure about the generic mount options. Why not just try them and see? -- Chuck Lever chuck[dot]lever[at]oracle[dot]com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
