Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!ecngs!feeder2.ecngs.de!217.188.199.168.MISMATCH!takemy.news.telefonica.de!feedme.news.telefonica.de!telefonica.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "J.O. Aho" Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs Subject: Re: Mounting files instead of directories? Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 23:19:45 +0200 Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <57788725-e7aa-474c-91f8-b7768c6f2e30@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net vgZarIR9kkEUOa7it1MC4w0tRz8mkvYLTCXv9InVvt7kOnx/Dq Cancel-Lock: sha1:cHarCASVEsc3u8rKY7O3T4eQO9I= X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.8.0 In-Reply-To: <57788725-e7aa-474c-91f8-b7768c6f2e30@googlegroups.com> Xref: csiph.com comp.protocols.nfs:28 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