Subject: Re: TCP NFS mounts of swap/root ?
To: Sean Doran <smd@ebone.net>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: current-users
Date: 10/28/1998 09:31:46
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998 18:13:14 +0100 (CET) 
 Sean Doran <smd@ebone.net> wrote:

 >   Playing around, though, revealed a kinky requirement and I don't
 > know if it can be met -- can I do NFS over TCP for the root
 > partition and the swap partition?  I tried specifying a -T in
 > the fstab (I also supply nfsmntpt=/swap, which is neat), but had
 > no luck.

options NFS_BOOT_TCP # use TCP for the root file system mount

:-)

For swap, rather than "mounting" the swap file, just make a /swap0 file
and specify it.  Since it's on your root file system, it will naturally
whichever transport your root is using.

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