[OpenAFS] 'diskless' clients with AFS in Linux initrd

[Blake Atkins]

So, could you not use the kernel ram disk and set OAFS to use a disk cache on 
top of it?

--Blake


On Monday 17 December 2001 10:36, you wrote:
> On 14 Dec 2001, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz@cmu.edu> writes:
> > > I also have no confidence at the moment that AFS still works in the
> > > initrd environment.  While an initrd is in use, kernel startup has not
> > > completely finished.  I used to support installing RedHat systems via
> > > AFS, but had to stop doing that with RH7.1 when AFS stopped working in
> > > the initrd environment.
> >
> > Can you comment on how AFS stopped working in the initrd environment?
> > MIT/Athena certainly installs a RH7.1-based system via AFS (although
> > I don't know if it uses an initrd or some other method).
>
> First, I don't think Athena 9.0 workstations are installed using memcache,
> since that apparently doesn't work at all on 2.4.x kernels.
>
> Second, it seems that the last time my AFS-install worked was on RH5.2; on
> transitioning to 6.2 I discovered thatmemcache no longer worked in the
> initrd environment in which RedHat's installer runs.
>
> -- Jeff
>
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