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Date:      Tue, 9 Apr 2002 12:14:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG>, Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, Michael Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Pawe=B3?= Jakub Dawidek <nick@garage.freebsd.pl>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Hardlinks...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0204091210120.57350-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <3CB2AA31.2DD9E44E@mindspring.com>

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On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Terry Lambert wrote:

> "Crist J. Clark" wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 09:13:12PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > [snip]
> 
> It depends.  If this is a truly multiuser environment, then
> you are probably getting your authentication from NIX or RADIUS.
> 
> It's really arguable that /etc should be a nullfs mount off of
> somewhere else and/or variable information belongs in "var" or
> some other place...
> 
> Sun has been able to do this since 1988 or so (at least).
> 


As terry knows of course, the Interjet
had the following /etc/symlinks: (excuse linewrap)
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root   wheel         20 Mr 28  2001 crontab@ ->
/writable/system/crontab
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root   wheel         18 Mr 28  2001 group@ ->
/writable/system/group
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root   wheel         22 Mr 28  2001 localtime@ ->
/writable/system/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root   wheel          3 Mr 28  2001 malloc.conf@ -> >>A
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root   wheel         26 Mr 28  2001 master.passwd@ ->
/writable/system/master.passwd
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root   wheel         19 Mr 28  2001 pwd.db@ ->
/writable/system/pwd.db
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root   wheel         28 Mr 28  2001 resolv.conf@ ->
/writable/server/dns/resolv.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root   wheel         31 Mr 28  2001 sendmail.cf@ ->
/writable/mail/sendmail/sendmail.cf
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root   wheel         20 Mr 28  2001 spwd.db@ ->
/writable/system/spwd.db

the single root+usr partition is mounted read-only.




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