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

2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/32356A 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.Presented at the 2nd European BSD Conference, 2002, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; v2: reformatted to help citation browserOperating SystemsDistributed, Parallel, and Cluster ComputingC.2.4; D.4.7A Shared Write-protected Root Filesystem for a Group of Networked Clientstext