From owner-cvs-all Tue Jan 26 08:37:31 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA28508 for cvs-all-outgoing; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 08:37:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA28497; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 08:37:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA23311; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 09:37:26 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA12438; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 09:37:24 -0700 Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 09:37:24 -0700 Message-Id: <199901261637.JAA12438@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Matthew Dillon Cc: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami), jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, julian@whistle.com, phk@critter.freebsd.dk, mike@smith.net.au, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_mib.c In-Reply-To: <199901260357.TAA12412@apollo.backplane.com> References: <199901260325.TAA39293@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <199901260357.TAA12412@apollo.backplane.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk [ Not sharing / on the server and not having a per-client / directory ] > :I think most of the complications are coming from trying to do the > :former, which is not a good idea to begin with. Stick to the latter > :and I suspect the problem will be much easier to solve. > : > : * * The workstations cannot simply run the server's /etc configuration > : * scripts > : > :Things like this, for instance. > : > :Satoshi > > Yah, but creating a minimal separate root and piecemeal-mounting the > shared portions is a pretty hard task and not something I can explain > easily, so I'd rather it work with both situations. Huh? Anyone capable of figuring out diskless booting can figure out how to create a per-client root directory, which includes /var. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message