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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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