A method to boot a cluster of diskless network clients from a single write-protected NFS root file system is shown. The problems encountered when first implementing the setup and their solution are discussed. Finally, the setup is briefly compared to using a kernel-embedded root file system.
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@article{arxiv.cs/0410007,
title = {A Shared Write-protected Root Filesystem for a Group of Networked Clients},
author = {Ignatios Souvatzis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0410007},
year = {2007}
}
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Presented at the 2nd European BSD Conference, 2002, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; v2: reformatted to help citation browser