From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 28 11:35:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-d.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.13.43.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0B2537B408 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 11:35:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Received: by turtle.looksharp.net (Postfix, from userid 1003) id 70DD140F3; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 14:36:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turtle.looksharp.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D7FBBB05; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 14:36:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 14:36:09 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" To: Matt Dillon Cc: Subject: Re: My Recommended Development/Testing environment for -current In-Reply-To: <200108281814.f7SIETX34454@earth.backplane.com> Message-ID: <20010828142545.N91047-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: > I'm posting this as an aid to everyone doing freebsd-current development > and testing and may not realize how easy it is to setup a development > environment. I found this very helpful Matt, thank you. I would only add one thing that I do in addition to some of these NFS tricks. The only machines at home which I presently keep hard drives in are my file server, firewall, and desktop. Everything else netboots off of the file server. This is very convenient because I can keep multiple NFS roots around and simply edit a text file, HUP a daemon, and power cycle a machine to alter which OS and/or OS revision it's running. Switched fast ethernet is more than enough to keep up with this on the 10 or so machines I have up and running at any given time. It works quite well. I will say though, on the subject of NFS, that one of the things that I'm almost annoyed enough with to start hacking on is the BSDs lack of autofs support. Linux now has a kickass autofs automounter. The BSDs are, to the best of my knowledge, the only OS left without one. Am-utils (the contrib source for our amd) has been kicking around autofs support for a while now but still does not appear to have anything release quality. It's a nuisance to have to run special scripts to parse your auto.* maps into stuff amd can understand in an NIS environment. -- "Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. There might be a law against it by that time." -- /usr/games/fortune, 07/30/2001 Brandon D. Valentine To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message