Re: NFS-mounted, read-only /dev unusable in 2.6

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

In article <64bf.410f9d6f.62af@xxxxxxxxx>,
Dick Streefland <dick.streefland@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Frank Steiner <fsteiner-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>| Or is there any other way to get an initial console or
>| output any messages from an init script if one boots via nfsroot
>| and  / (and thus, /dev) is only exported read-only from the
>| server?
>
>You can boot with a ramdisk as root, initialized with an initrd, and
>then perform all NFS mounts manually in the init script. You can use
>pivot_root to switch to an NFS root to get rid of the ramdisk.

If having /dev mounted read-only means you cannot open devices
like /dev/console read/write then that is a bug in the NFS client
in the kernel.

On all other filesystems (ext2, ext3, xfs etc) there's no problem
opening devices r/w on a read-only filesystem.

Mike.
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