From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 13 08:30:34 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id IAA12885 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 13 Jan 1995 08:30:34 -0800 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA12878 for ; Fri, 13 Jan 1995 08:30:33 -0800 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id IAA03455; Fri, 13 Jan 1995 08:30:11 -0800 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199501131630.IAA03455@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: About readonly root partition To: tinguely@plains.nodak.edu (Mark Tinguely) Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1995 08:30:11 -0800 (PST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it In-Reply-To: <199501131503.AA12584@plains.NoDak.edu> from "Mark Tinguely" at Jan 13, 95 09:03:00 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 922 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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 TRW Financial Systems, Inc. FreeBSD has, until now, not one single time had an undetected error. :-)