On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 21:22 +0200, Manuel Lauss wrote: > On Wed, 20 May 2009 20:16:18 +0100 > Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:01:05AM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > > > > Question: are machines that must be NFS-root and tftp booted acceptable > > > or not acceptable for such work? The machines in question would 750MHz > > > Sibyte 1250s, so 3 Gigabit ports natively, and 2 serial consoles. > > > > For many uses that will be decent but there are still a few things out > > there that don't quite work the same way on NFS that they do on other > > filesystems and that tends to break some software and autoconf-like > > things. I'd probably give such a config a 90% score - good for most stuff. > > I rebuilt a whole Gentoo system from scratch natively over an NFSroot-- > it was actually very painless; add distcc and the time to wait is a > lot shorter. One of the farm machine is a Marvell sheevaplug with root over NFS (gentoo based with marvell.git kernel) and it does multi user compilations all day long with no issue so far. Laurent
