zfs clone, nfs and pxeboot

David Arendt admin at prnet.org
Thu Jul 28 16:41:29 UTC 2011


Hi,

yes, I know, but it would be interesing to know if there is a general 
problem with zfs clones shared over nfs or if it is pxeboot related.

Bye,
David Arendt

On 07/28/11 13:10, krad wrote:
> On 28 July 2011 11:41,<admin at prnet.org>  wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I wanted to experiment a bit with pxeboot. Therefore I created a zfs clone
>> of a jail filesystem. The clone was shared as via nfs. Pxeboot complained
>> that it can't load the kernel. The pxeboot ls command gave some correct
>> and some really messed up filenames. I then deleted the clone and copied
>> the filesystem (in the same zpool) using zfs send ... | zfs receive ... If
>> I share this new filesystem via nfs, pxeboot doesn't have the messed up
>> filename problem and everything works as expected. Is there some known
>> problems with zfs clones and nfs ?
>>
>> Just for information, this was tested on FreeBSD 8.2 amd64 (not the
>> machine were I have problems in the other thread)
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Bye,
>> David Arendt
>>
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>
> you can get the kernel modules to be fetched via tftp, does it work with
> that?
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