Stuart Henderson [s...@spacehopper.org] wrote: > > On this type of system I just do "rw;vi /whatever;ro" where rw/ro are simple > shell scripts that run "mount -uw /" and "mount -ur /" respectively, I don't > usually find this a problem. > > Or you could use a wrapper which does similar and commits the edited file > to a version control system (though I usually handle version control on > this type of box by pushing the files from another machine to avoid having > checkouts all over the place).
Yeah there's no real point in /etc being an MFS unless you need to make frequent, automated updates to it. /dev needed to be MFS for sshd to work, it wanted to update metadata on tty devices, i'm not sure if that's still the case anymore. -- There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games. - E. Hemingway
