zfs clone, nfs and pxeboot

krad kraduk at gmail.com
Thu Jul 28 11:10:57 UTC 2011


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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