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Re: Mounting files instead of directories?

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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

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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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