Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1995 08:30:11 -0800 (PST) From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> To: tinguely@plains.nodak.edu (Mark Tinguely) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it Subject: Re: About readonly root partition Message-ID: <199501131630.IAA03455@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199501131503.AA12584@plains.NoDak.edu> from "Mark Tinguely" at Jan 13, 95 09:03:00 am
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> > In the interest of better support for diskless and in general for > > multiple installations, it seems to me that it would be nice if > > /etc were *not* on the same filesystem as root, but rather in /var or > > some other location, so that each machine can have its own copy. > > IMHO this should be a local change not a distributed change. Also IMHO, we > should push for DATALESS environments and discourage DISKLESS enviroments. > disks are far too cheap to have a 40-60 meg drive for boot,swap,tmp,parts of > var to save the network which will be saturated with the applications as it is. I have a lot of success with diskless, because people have various microsloth pseudo-os's on their disk for business reasons. We are not in the preaching business anyway... -- Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> TRW Financial Systems, Inc. FreeBSD has, until now, not one single time had an undetected error. :-)
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