Is NFS root still useful, can it be used with RHEL? Are the "stateless linux" concepts beeing worked on, are there modern variants?
Issue
- Is NFS root still useful, can it be used with RHEL? Are the "stateless linux" concepts beeing worked on, are there modern variants?
- I am thinking about NFS root, sharing big parts (i.e.
/usr) readonly between multiple systems. Goal: saving storage, I want to use this for virtual guests on
VMware and SAN is expensive, the virtual guests disks reside on the SAN. I had success running NFSroot systems with the default RHEL6 initrd. - Are there other options to save storage, i.e. in sharing
/usrbetween multiple systems? The trends of virtualization and iscsi-root started after stateless-linux, but I see not how they would address the storage saving?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5, 6 and 7
- NFS
- iSCSI
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