Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 23:47:01 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> Cc: Freebsd Current <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.0 Developer Preview #1 Now Available / diskless booting Message-ID: <20020422234701.A52794@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <E16ztee-0002kl-00@cs.huji.ac.il>; from danny@cs.huji.ac.il on Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 09:19:56AM %2B0300 References: <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> <E16ztee-0002kl-00@cs.huji.ac.il>
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On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 09:19:56AM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote: > > That being that some of us actually WANT /etc to be left the fsck alone. > > We NFS mount / and that / has /etc as it should be. I also cannot follow > > what you are trying to do with /etc/conf. Perhaps you could comment that > > part? > > i don't understand what you mean by 'left the fsck alone', but i'll try to > explain. > > / ( and whatever is under it) is NFS mounted read only, as should be. This is where all of us doing Sparc64 development say you are wrong -- / is NFS mounted RW. Back in the SunOS diskless workstations days were this was invented, / was NFS mounted RW. Please stop assuming everyone wants to change from tradition. > the 'original' solution is to make /etc writable is to mount a MD, then copy > all > /conf/default/etc to it. The very original "solution" was to mount NFS / RW. The move to /conf/default/etc was someone's special needs leaking into the FreeBSD repository. If you want to special case, things be my guest -- add an elif test; but leave RW NFS mounted / alone. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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