md device backing files on nfs mounts?

[Lowell Gilbert]

"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.