From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 23 7:53:12 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 AF0C337B41E for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 07:53:09 -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 g3NEr3Ym075197; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 07:53:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g3NEpm64075188; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 07:51:48 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 07:51:48 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Terry Lambert Cc: Danny Braniss , Freebsd Current Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.0 Developer Preview #1 Now Available / diskless booting Message-ID: <20020423075148.I52794@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020422234701.A52794@dragon.nuxi.com> <3CC539C3.6A1B0281@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3CC539C3.6A1B0281@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 03:38:59AM -0700 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 03:38:59AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > 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. > > This isn't just about NFS... it's also about Fash devices, which > are only warranteed for a limited number of writes, which mounting > R/W would really eat into, and it's for read-only media, like in > the "ClosedBSD" and "PicoBSD" FreeBSD based firewalls, I think. As I said Terry, change the patch to not take away RW /. Add an elif check, add a `readonly_root' rc.conf knob, etc... But people should stop assuming everyone wants their special needs and local weirdness. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message