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  2. Diskless Remote Boot in Linux - Wikipedia

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    The client requests an IP address, and tftp image to boot from, both are provided by the DRBL server. The client boots the initial RAM disk provided by the DRBL server via tftp, and proceeds to mount an nfs share (also provided by the DRBL server) as its root (/) partition. From there, the client boots either the linux distribution on which the ...

  3. UnionFS - Wikipedia

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    Unionfs is a filesystem service for Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD which implements a union mount for other file systems.It allows files and directories of separate file systems, known as branches, to be transparently overlaid, forming a single coherent file system.

  4. aufs - Wikipedia

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    aufs (short for advanced multi-layered unification filesystem) implements a union mount for Linux file systems. The name originally stood for AnotherUnionFS until version 2. Developed by Junjiro Okajima in 2006, [ 1 ] aufs is a complete rewrite of the earlier UnionFS .

  5. Network File System - Wikipedia

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    Network File System (NFS) is a distributed file system protocol originally developed by Sun Microsystems (Sun) in 1984, [1] allowing a user on a client computer to access files over a computer network much like local storage is accessed.

  6. fstab - Wikipedia

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    fstab (after file systems table) is a system file commonly found in the directory /etc on Unix and Unix-like computer systems. In Linux, it is part of the util-linux package. The fstab file typically lists all available disk partitions and other types of file systems and data sources that may not necessarily be disk-based, and indicates how they are to be initialized or otherwise integrated ...

  7. Linux Terminal Server Project - Wikipedia

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    When this information is retrieved, the client mounts the path on its root filesystem via either the Network File System (NFS) or Network Block Device (NBD) services running on the LTSP server. The client then loads Linux from the NFS mounted root filesystem (or NBD filesystem image) and starts the X Window system.

  8. dracut (software) - Wikipedia

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    Ubuntu since version 18.04 [14] Alpine Linux in community repository [ 15 ] Most other distributions have made dracut available as an optional package to replace the distribution's default initramfs generator.

  9. OverlayFS - Wikipedia

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    The need and specification of a kernel mode Linux union mount filesystem was identified in late 2009. [1] The initial RFC patchset of OverlayFS was submitted by Miklos Szeredi in 2010. [2] By 2011, OpenWrt had already adopted it for their use. [3] It was merged into the Linux kernel mainline in 2014, in kernel version 3.18.