From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 26 14:58:44 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA06205 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 14:58:44 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA06171 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 14:58:40 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA23816; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 23:58:33 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA14460 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 23:58:31 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id WAA24241 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 22:50:24 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199506262050.WAA24241@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Announcing 2.0.5-950622-SNAP To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 22:50:23 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: <199506261548.JAA06748@sargon.mdl.sandia.gov> from "Alan F Lundin" at Jun 26, 95 09:48:22 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 687 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Alan F Lundin wrote: > > > 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!) :-) mkdir base/host1/etc mkdir base/host2/etc mkdir base/host3/etc ... ln base/host1/etc/* base/host2/etc/ ln base/host1/etc/* base/host3/etc/ ...and manually edit the files that are different per host. Doesn't eat up all space on the server, and still allows for flexibility in the per-host configuration. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)