Path: csiph.com!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: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 07:56:07 +0200 Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: <57788725-e7aa-474c-91f8-b7768c6f2e30@googlegroups.com> <7fb4f940-101c-457e-bcce-055d891a2958@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 2hRrfJFHHlU5GQGdurVzGQRvoY+z+lpzUpX4iTDDFfnB6jYmyF Cancel-Lock: sha1:/nbpe+nSWVHIJFhU8CYHmHayN0s= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.8.0 In-Reply-To: <7fb4f940-101c-457e-bcce-055d891a2958@googlegroups.com> Xref: csiph.com comp.protocols.nfs:30 On 09/15/2016 11:32 PM, herrmannsfeldt@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, September 15, 2016 at 2:19:47 PM UTC-7, J.O. Aho wrote: >> On 09/15/2016 06:59 PM, herrmann...@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. > > NFS swap goes back at least to SunOS 3.5, as that is when I first remember it. > It is nice to have a local swap disk, even if you don't have anything else local, > but I think that is rare. It's a long time since I used SunOS and back then didn't do much administration of systems, so not sure about that. > Thanks for the fast response, I didn't know if anyone read this. I guess it's just me who still subscribes this news group, it's been dead for years, this was the first time I seen anything here at for the last couple of years. -- //Aho