[arch-general] Updating iputils over NFS

[Paul Gideon Dann]

On Monday 01 Oct 2012 14:22:41 Thomas Bächler wrote:
> IMO, root file systems on NFS are a failure by design anyway - I worked
> in such a scenario for years and it is a bad bad bad idea. While we
> should fix easy problems such as this one, we should not spend too much
> time on making this work.

I'd be really interested in your reasons for this.  I'm running a network-
booted cluster, and things seem much easier using NFS for this than it would 
be to have a hard disk in each node and use puppet (or similar) for 
administration.

Paul