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Date:      Mon, 26 Jun 1995 09:48:22 -0600
From:      aflundi@sandia.gov (Alan F Lundin)
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers), joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
Subject:   Re: Announcing 2.0.5-950622-SNAP
Message-ID:  <199506261548.JAA06748@sargon.mdl.sandia.gov>
In-Reply-To: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> "Re: Announcing 2.0.5-950622-SNAP" (Jun 25,  9:50am)

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On Jun 25,  9:50am, J Wunsch wrote:
> Subject: Re: Announcing 2.0.5-950622-SNAP
>
> > > > Well, that's sort of what /etc/sysconfig is eventually supposed to
> > > > become.  Then you'd never overwrite the user's sysconfig file and
> > > > would, at most, patch it to fold in whatever knobs had been added..
> > > 
> > > / needs to be mountable read only.  /var/sysconfig (or similar).
> > 
> > Heh??  What does a read-only root have to do with /etc/sysconfig?
> 
> Further, /etc contains the per-host configuration information, so i
> don't see a good way to share a common /etc directory between multiple
> diskless hosts.

union mount (If only it worked!) :-) 

--alan



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