On 12/11/2012 05:15 AM, Paul Gideon Dann wrote:

Hi guys,

I'm not sure who's actually in charge of oversight on the Wiki, but I'd appreciate a little input from anyone, really.

I've recently been trying to ensure the accuracy of the wiki with regards to diskless booting. I run a cluster at work, and I've spent quite some time looking into getting this system functioning correctly, and I wanted to make sure the documentation was there for others to use.

I was looking for information like this a week or two ago. I realized I don't do any nfsroot testing before submitting patches, and I have submitted patches in the past that accidentally broke it :(.

However, another (presumably well-intentioned) contributor has rewritten the original article, and seems very keen to cut back everything he doesn't agree with. To be honest, I'm a bit sick of trying to convince him that all information is helpful, and that not everyone that reads the article will have his usecase.

In particular, he's keen to remove all references to NFSv3 (although Arch doesn't currently support booting NFSv4 without his hack), and needing a separate /var for each node (which I've explained is necessary in many, if not most, situations).

This would have tripped me up. I wouldn't have thought to only test on v3 or to make a separate /var for each client... - Bryan

I'd appreciate someone taking a look at the talk page and article history. (I'm Giddie on the wiki.) If it's decided I'm wrong, I'm fine with that. I'm just keen for the wiki to be as helpful as possible, and I don't think that's the case right now.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_Installation_Guide

Help appreciated, Paul