Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:15:38 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/examples/diskless clone_root Message-ID: <20040923191538.GG25699@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20040923120543.B72856@xorpc.icir.org> References: <200409231552.i8NFqh1c042744@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040923120543.B72856@xorpc.icir.org>
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--HB4mHL4PVvkpZAgW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 12:05:43PM -0700, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 03:52:43PM +0000, Brooks Davis wrote: > ... > > Hack around the fact that the current diskless scripts require some > > binaries in /usr before /usr is mounted by copying those files to the >=20 > this was fixed long ago, did the problem reappear somehow ? > in case, the proper place to fix is the scripts in /etc/rc*, not > put a bandaid here which has high chances of being broken again. The problem is that currently there is no way to populate /var without a minimum of mtree which lives in /usr. Since /var is supposed to exist before we mount /usr there's a dependency problem. We should be able to fix the mtree dependency now that bsdtar is available since we could install a pax archive derived from the mtree file. We also strongly desire the creation of syslog files which currently requires newsyslog. The requirement for touch might be removable but I haven't really tried since the others are more fundamental. My personal opinion is that there isn't a whole lot of reason to configure a diskless system where / and /usr aren't on the same FS so I never hit this problem on my own systems. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --HB4mHL4PVvkpZAgW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBUyDZXY6L6fI4GtQRAkJaAJ4rx1g0xdfEEbHUyc9XcNHSP8/YkQCeJNbG M+cANuhJkSvx3FybtoZYYyw= =zBS3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --HB4mHL4PVvkpZAgW--
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