md device backing files on nfs mounts?
Lowell Gilbert
freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Thu Oct 6 09:51:43 PDT 2005
"Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad at shire.net> writes:
> Can the files that back an md device be resident on an nfs mount?
>
> I run some jails with each having its own root based on an md device.
> I am thinking of having a backend nfs server have all the storage and
> serve it to various front end servers. If one front end server went
> down I could easily bring it up on another one. Kind of poor-man's
> redundancy
How do you get the NFS mount before you have a root?
Also, I suspect the permissions might be a little tricky...
Some kind of netbooting might work.
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