Have two here - disk less atoms as mythtv front ends - seems a common use case in the mythtv world. And another advantage is they sidestep the whole /user mess :)
BillK On 20/03/2012, at 7:49, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:33:39 +0000 > Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > >> As for making /usr read-only; it is generally only writeable by root >> and anyone with the root password could remount rw anyway, so there's >> not much point there. > > I was thinking here more of /usr mounted -t nfs > > root on nfs client != root on nfs server > > hence the need for rootsquash. > > But these days that setup is becoming a niche thing, the last one I saw > was in a university lab and I've never actually admined one myself. > > > -- > Alan McKinnnon > alan.mckin...@gmail.com > >