Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 09:18:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org (Jamil J. Weatherbee) Cc: grog@lemis.com, dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au, asami@cs.berkeley.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My FreeBSD Wish List... Message-ID: <199709110918.CAA12331@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970910235821.19803C-100000@counterintelligence.ml.org> from "Jamil J. Weatherbee" at Sep 11, 97 00:08:22 am
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> I have worked extensively with some diskless freebsd & linux machines and > a read only /usr is critical, I happen to be one of those people who agree with this, mostly because I want to ROM FreeBSD onto pen-based PDA's with IR or short range radio links into a local net using SSL or IPv6 + DES. Think about the waitress who comes to your table to take your order... Among other things; there are a hell of a lot of uses for this; a server for JAVA-chip based machines is another. > diskless machines in /etc/exports to make the system so that only the > machine which mounts its root directory has access to it you need at least > 2* the amount of diskless mahcines which could be possibly in the order of > 20-30 on a single two gig drive, meaning with the current nfs setup I need > 40 filesystems (20 swap 64MB, 20 root 25MB) and I don't really think you > can get that many filesystems on a single disk? (or does someone know > something I don't) Read the man page more carefully. You can export subdirectories; an NFS export cant cross a physical mount point, but multiple exports inferior to a physical mount point are allowed. If they weren't, Diskless and Dataless Sun machines would have a hell of a time existing... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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