From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 16 19:36:34 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id TAA26638 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 16 Jan 1995 19:36:34 -0800 Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.20.4]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id TAA26630 for ; Mon, 16 Jan 1995 19:36:31 -0800 Received: by brasil.moneng.mei.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA05502; Mon, 16 Jan 95 14:59:38 CST From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <9501162059.AA05502@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: About readonly root partition To: root@rz-wb.fh-sw.de (Michael Reifenberger) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 14:59:38 -0600 (CST) Cc: martin@innovus.com, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Michael Reifenberger" at Jan 15, 95 08:44:00 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4beta PL9] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1044 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Fri, 13 Jan 1995, Martin Renters wrote: > ... > > I do agree that it would be a good idea to do something to allow selective > > mounting at system startup time. Perhaps init could tell that it is running > > diskless and run some sort of shared '/etc/diskless.rc' script which could > > mount the correct /etc, /tmp and /var filesystems based on some system > > administrator defined scheme. > > Istn't amd supposed to do this sorts of things. > > Bye! > .... > Michael Reifenberger amd is sorta useless until a reasonable portion of the system has been brought up. In particular, one needs to arrange to get the maps and hostnames from somewhere... it would be just as easy to devise a cleaner solution. However, amd is a sysadmin's dream come true for day to day NFS mounts. :-) ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - The Data Capture Fellow (and UNIX/Network Hacker) 414/362-3617 Marquette Electronics, Inc. - Milwaukee, WI jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com