This code dates back to the very first diskless support on FreeBSD,
back when swapon(8) couldn't simply be run on a NFS backed file.
Suggested replacement command sequence on the client:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1k count=1 oseek=100000
swapon /swapfile
rm -f /swapfile
For whatever value of 100000 you want.
so that it is MI. Allow nfs_mountroot to return an error if the nfs_diskless
struct is not valid, rather than panicing later on. Call nfs_setup_diskless()
from nfs_mountroot if NFS_ROOT is defined, like bootpc_init(). Removed legacy
root mount support for sparc64, and enabled NFS_ROOT by default.
compatible with boot proms made from the 2.2 source.
Convert the nfs arguments when copying to the new diskless structure.
Copy the gateway field in the diskless structure.
changes, so don't expect to be able to run the kernel as-is (very well)
without the appropriate Lite/2 userland changes.
The system boots and can mount UFS filesystems.
Untested: ext2fs, msdosfs, NFS
Known problems: Incorrect Berkeley ID strings in some files.
Mount_std mounts will not work until the getfsent
library routine is changed.
Reviewed by: various people
Submitted by: Jeffery Hsu <hsu@freebsd.org>
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
The version 2 support has been tested (client+server) against FreeBSD-2.0,
IRIX 5.3 and FreeBSD-current (using a loopback mount). The version 2 support
is stable AFAIK.
The version 3 support has been tested with a loopback mount and minimally
against an IRIX 5.3 server. It needs more testing and may have problems.
I have patched amd to support the new variable length filehandles although
it will still only use version 2 of the protocol.
Before booting a kernel with these changes, nfs clients will need to at least
build and install /usr/sbin/mount_nfs. Servers will need to build and
install /usr/sbin/mountd.
NFS diskless support is untested.
Obtained from: Rick Macklem <rick@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca>
