David O'Brien wrote: > > / ( 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.
While it's true that this was the case for workstations, where you would end up having 128 workstations and 128 copies of the / directory on the server for the diskless/dataless workstations, I think the R/W mount was out of necesssity, not out of desirability. For most of the work I've done over the past 5/6 years, it's really desirable to have / mounted read-only. > > 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. This isn't just about NFS... it's also about Fash devices, which are only warranteed for a limited number of writes, which mounting R/W would really eat into, and it's for read-only media, like in the "ClosedBSD" and "PicoBSD" FreeBSD based firewalls, I think. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
