On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:21:09PM +0200, Laurent GUERBY wrote: > > 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. For your entertainment: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9629799/apdxa.htm http://www.time-travellers.org/shane/papers/NFS_considered_harmful.html NFSv4 fixes alot of issues but is only slowly being adopted. Also iSCSI might be worth trying; it would completely solve all the NFS issues. Ralf
