From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 22 23:48:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CB1A37B417 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 23:48:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3N6mIYm053348; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 23:48:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g3N6l3Tg053325; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 23:47:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 23:47:01 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Danny Braniss Cc: Freebsd Current Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.0 Developer Preview #1 Now Available / diskless booting Message-ID: <20020422234701.A52794@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from danny@cs.huji.ac.il on Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 09:19:56AM +0300 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 09:19:56AM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote: > > That being that some of us actually WANT /etc to be left the fsck alone. > > We NFS mount / and that / has /etc as it should be. I also cannot follow > > what you are trying to do with /etc/conf. Perhaps you could comment that > > part? > > i don't understand what you mean by 'left the fsck alone', but i'll try to > explain. > > / ( and whatever is under it) is NFS mounted read only, as should be. This is where all of us doing Sparc64 development say you are wrong -- / is NFS mounted RW. Back in the SunOS diskless workstations days were this was invented, / was NFS mounted RW. Please stop assuming everyone wants to change from tradition. > the 'original' solution is to make /etc writable is to mount a MD, then copy > all > /conf/default/etc to it. The very original "solution" was to mount NFS / RW. The move to /conf/default/etc was someone's special needs leaking into the FreeBSD repository. If you want to special case, things be my guest -- add an elif test; but leave RW NFS mounted / alone. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message