Thomas Goirand <tho...@goirand.fr> writes: > Oh, and when I'm at it, how do you implement /usr as read only, > (over nfs for example)? This is a quite common setup in large > organization / universities.
I really don't believe this is true any more. We used to do stuff like this and stopped doing it a long time ago, and that's what I hear from my peers. Local disk space is cheap and local package management is now easy, and doing this sort of trick is now really a waste of time and a good way to make all your computers unnecessarily slow. There are still some diskless systems, but those systems don't mount /usr over NFS. They mount / over NFS, which is a different problem entirely. Mounting /usr but not / is not a diskless configuration; it's a very rare hybrid mode with a small local disk, and now that local disk is so cheap (even with embedded devices with flash memory), it's mostly just a bad idea. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ehw5ipi2....@windlord.stanford.edu
