From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 26 00:22:26 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA26228 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 00:22:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA26216 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 00:22:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) id AAA14526; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 00:22:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 00:22:17 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199901260822.AAA14526@apollo.backplane.com> To: Bill Trost Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: beginnings of a diskless boot sequence being committed References: <199901251604.RAA27194@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> <15510.917327374@grey.cloud.rain.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :... :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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message