Hi, ive used "root via nfsv3" and was very disappointed with the speed, also encryption is not possible. Currently my system boots the kernel from usb and than mount / via nfs, is it possible to have the openafs client in the initrd environment and use pivot_root to make it the real root? found the pivot_root idea here: http://ltsp.mirrors.tds.net/pub/ltsp/docs/ltsp-4.1-en.html#AEN67 Julius