Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 22:50:23 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Announcing 2.0.5-950622-SNAP Message-ID: <199506262050.WAA24241@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199506261548.JAA06748@sargon.mdl.sandia.gov> from "Alan F Lundin" at Jun 26, 95 09:48:22 am
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As Alan F Lundin wrote: > > > Further, /etc contains the per-host configuration information, so i > > don't see a good way to share a common /etc directory between multiple > > diskless hosts. > > union mount (If only it worked!) :-) mkdir base/host1/etc mkdir base/host2/etc mkdir base/host3/etc ... ln base/host1/etc/* base/host2/etc/ ln base/host1/etc/* base/host3/etc/ ...and manually edit the files that are different per host. Doesn't eat up all space on the server, and still allows for flexibility in the per-host configuration. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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