Re: (E)NBD as root file system

Hi!! We are using SuSE9.3 successfully diskless over nbd (in some other 
setup with squashfs). The setup is done of course in the initrd. That 
initrd is written by a modified version of the SuSE10.0 mkinitrd tool 
(rather nasty shell script for generating InitRDs). I could post that, but 
do not know if that might be of any use ... We are working with special 
kernel command line options for triggering nbd use like: 
nbdserver=IP:NBD-Port,type_of_fs ...

Ciao,
	Dirk

> I have read (elsewhere) that NBD as root file system is possible through 
> custom modifications to initrd. I presume this approach requires the 
> creation of a ramdisk from which to run the NBD client. Once the NBD 
> client is running and attached to the remote NBD server, there must be 
> some mechanism by which this remote file system can be made the root file 
> system.
> 
> Does anyone have a recipe to make the above happen for a Linux 2.6 kernel?
> 
> ... Dave
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