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A Shared Write-protected Root Filesystem for a Group of Networked Clients

Ignatios Souvatzis

cs.OSarXiv:cs/0410007

Abstract

A method to boot a cluster of diskless network clients from a single write-protected NFS root file system is shown. The problems encountered when first implementing the setup and their solution are discussed. Finally, the setup is briefly compared to using a kernel-embedded root file system.

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