[OpenAFS] afs for /

[Dirk Heinrichs]

On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Joerg Sommer wrote:

> Hi,
>
> is it possible to use afs for the root directory? I see some problem with
No.

> We will boot all clients from the net and we would set up a NFS server
> for / and afs should provide /usr, /home,... So the NFS server isn't
> really necessary. But could we use afs for this?
AFS not, but if the clients are Linux, they could netboot a combined
kernel/ramdisk image, where the ramdisk should have anything needed to set
up and mount AFS. Don't know if this will work with other client OS's,
though.

HTH...

	Dirk
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