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Re: Mounting files instead of directories?

From "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net>
Newsgroups comp.protocols.nfs
Subject Re: Mounting files instead of directories?
Date 2016-09-15 23:19 +0200
Message-ID <e40hjhFr996U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 09/15/2016 06:59 PM, herrmannsfeldt@gmail.com wrote:
> I might try this in another group, as this looks like almost 100% spam.
> 
> Can an NFS client mount a file, instead of a directory?

As far as I ever seen, regardless of SunOS, BSD or Linux, the share is
always a directory and you can either mount the whole directory or a
sybdirectory.


> I am trying to get diskless SunOS to work, with either a FreeBSD or Linux server.

It's a long time since I had a Sparc, but back then when I had one (the
model had a flawed IDE chip which made the local disk to be extremely
slow), I used tftp for initial startup and mount the NFS, but back then
there was no support for swap on NFS, so I didn't have a swap, thought I
had enough RAM with 2GB.


-- 

 //Aho

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Mounting files instead of directories? herrmannsfeldt@gmail.com - 2016-09-15 09:59 -0700
  Re: Mounting files instead of directories? "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2016-09-15 23:19 +0200
    Re: Mounting files instead of directories? herrmannsfeldt@gmail.com - 2016-09-15 14:32 -0700
      Re: Mounting files instead of directories? "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2016-09-16 07:56 +0200
  Re: Mounting files instead of directories? Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> - 2016-09-16 10:47 +0000
    Re: Mounting files instead of directories? Casper H.S. Dik <Casper.Dik@OrSPaMcle.COM> - 2016-09-16 11:02 +0000
      Re: Mounting files instead of directories? herrmannsfeldt@gmail.com - 2016-09-16 06:22 -0700
        Re: Mounting files instead of directories? Casper H.S. Dik <Casper.Dik@OrSPaMcle.COM> - 2016-09-16 13:28 +0000
          Re: Mounting files instead of directories? herrmannsfeldt@gmail.com - 2016-09-16 12:56 -0700
            Re: Mounting files instead of directories? herrmannsfeldt@gmail.com - 2016-09-16 13:28 -0700
              Re: Mounting files instead of directories? herrmannsfeldt@gmail.com - 2016-09-16 14:39 -0700

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