[geeks] basic IRIX network questions

[Caleb Shay]

It's there.  Just be careful.  Some kernels will panic if you try to
mount an EFS CD.  I believe this is fixed in more recent kernels.  The
simple workaround if you HAVE to read the CD from a Linux box is to dump
the CD to a file and then mount it as loopback, ie:

dd if=/dev/cdrom of=myefscd
mount -t efs -o loop,ro myefsd /mnt/cdrom

Caleb

On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 23:14, Simeon Johnston wrote:
> Does Linux even support EFS?  Or would XFS work as well?
> I know Linux supports XFS but I've never seen EFS support.  I haven't 
> looked for it though.
> 
> sim
> 
> On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 03:24 PM, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> > You need an IRIX box to read the CDs (or Linux with EFS filesystem and
> > SGI partition map support), but the actual server can be anything with a
> > sane tftp and r* services.  IRIX is easiest, though, because
> > everything's already configured for you in /etc/inetd.conf.  So, you can
> > just comment-out the lines when you want the system to be more secure,
> > and uncomment them when you want a boot server.
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