[uClibc]Re: Alternative network filesystems

[Miles Bader]

"Jason Bodnar" <jason at shakabuku.org> writes:
> Since NFS mounting with busybox seems to be a bit spotty (or it just may be a
> problem on my end) and it doesn't seem like smbmount will ever build against
> uClibc due to it's bloat (smbmount not uClibc) I've started looking at a
> couple of alternative network filesystems:

What do you mean `NFS mounting with busybox seems to be a bit spotty'?

I boot using a minimal system that contains only these busybox links:

   echo hostname mkdir mount sh

and these non-busybox binaries (these could theoretically be provided
using busybox too; I don't remember why I didn't use the BB versions):

   ifconfig init portmap route

It then uses the following /etc/rc script to mount various top-level dirs
over nfs, and then everything runs out of nfs.  This all works just dandy...

   HOST="mcspx1.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp"
   ADDR="10.30.114.220"
   NETMASK="255.255.255.0"
   BROADCAST="10.30.114.255"
   GATEWAY="10.30.114.254"
   INTERFACE=eth0

   NFSROOT="10.30.114.174:/usr/local/export/ucl-v850"

   hostname "$HOST"

   mount -t proc proc /proc
   mount -t ramfs ram /var

   for VD in tmp log run lock; do mkdir "/var/$VD"; done

   ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
   route add -net 127.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 lo

   ifconfig "$INTERFACE" "$ADDR" netmask "$NETMASK" broadcast "$BROADCAST"
   route add "$ADDR" "$INTERFACE"
   route add default gw "$GATEWAY"

   portmap &

   for MP in bin etc usr home lib; do
     mount "$NFSROOT/$MP" "/$MP"
   done

[This is using the latest CVS versions of uClinux & uClibc, and utilities
from the uClinux-dist distrubution tweaked to compile under them.]

-Miles
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