NFS + ZFS - Base System readonly

[Philipp Vlassakakis]

Is there a way to have a separate passwd file for each client and not to use the one of the template?
I want to set up independent machines with different users. (NIS is not an option)

Regards,
Philipp

> On 13. Aug 2018, at 23:54, Daniel Feenberg <feenberg at nber.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> We have been using zfs for the exported OS partitions (indeed for all FreeBSD partitions) for many years now with no problems. NFS speed is pretty much the same as a local hard disk.
> 
> Daniel Feenberg
> 
> On Mon, 13 Aug 2018, Philipp Vlassakakis wrote:
> 
>> Hi Daniel,
>> 
>> it’s working, thanks.
>> Now I still have to make some changes to the configuration files, fixing entropy-file per host etc. but so far it looks very good.
>> Do you also use NFS? If so, what is your speed?
>> Did you tried ZFS already?
>> 
>> Thanks again! :)
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Philipp
>> 
>>> On 13. Aug 2018, at 14:42, Daniel Feenberg <feenberg at nber.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Mon, 13 Aug 2018, Philipp Vlassakakis wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> has anyone experience in mounting a base system via PXE + NFS as readonly and then mount ZFS datasets r/w on top of the base-system?
>>>> 
>>>> I would like to boot a basesystem (which is stored on a NFS share) via PXE and mount ZFS-Datasets on top of that, so i can rollout specific configs (hostname, services...) per Host and give user the ability to edit config files (apache, mysql...) and store data on the ZFS-disks, which will not be wiped due to a Host reboot.
>>> 
>>> We have been doing this for many years, for a score of systems. We have a detailed description of our procedures at:
>>> 
>>>  http://www.nber.org/sys-admin/FreeBSD-diskless.html
>>> 
>>> It works very well for us. Good luck.
>>> 
>>> Daniel Feenberg
>>> NBER
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Is this possible?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Philipp
>>>> 
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