Re: nfs compatibility bug between linux and other os'es
Matthew Wilcox (Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com)
Mon, 5 Jul 1999 14:51:38 +0200
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 01:20:14PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> andreas.brodmann@gmaare.migros.ch said:
> > Our goal is to create Linux servers rootmounted on the NetApp filer.
>
> You will have problems getting file locking to work on your root filesystem -
> I believe that you have to start rpc.statd _before_ mounting the NFS
> filesystem, which is obviously a little difficult if it's the root filesystem.
initrd.
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Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai>
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