On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Philip Blundell wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> 
> >  > Other than rbootd, the only non-obvious thing is remounting
> >  > the root filesystem to read/write in 1K blocks so Linux' nfs
> >  > can handle it...
> > 
> > Oof!  That's unfortunate!  While you can remount root w/ 1k blocks,
> > your swap is still using the 4k block size!
> 
> Well, the correct thing to do is to work out why the Linux system doesn't
> like 4k blocks.  It certainly _should_ be OK. 

It's a Well Known Problem - causes problems with Suns as well.
Incidentally, the recommended fix for this with SunOS is to 
use adb to patch the kernel binary :-)

Peter Maydell