Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 00:22:17 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Bill Trost <trost@cloud.rain.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: beginnings of a diskless boot sequence being committed Message-ID: <199901260822.AAA14526@apollo.backplane.com> References: <199901251604.RAA27194@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> <15510.917327374@grey.cloud.rain.com>
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:portions of the read-only root directory (which strikes as a bit odd in
:itself), I was considering union-mounting an MFS filesystem directly
:over the read-only root partition. The advantage of this approach
It isn't a bad idea, but I dunno how stable the union filesystem is.
I prefer to be told when I'm not supposed to write somewhere, though :-)
I like keeping things formally read-only if that is what they essentially
are.
If all else fails, perhaps use of union will allow overriding /etc.
Hmmm.
:is that you do not have to know ahead of time what portions of the
:read-only partition need to be writable -- files get copied into the MFS
:partition only if and when they are written to.
:
:Thoughts? It seems like it would be feasible, and it might even be
:possible to do it directly in /etc/fstab without having to put any sort
:of cleverness in /etc/rc.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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