> Does anyone actually do this -- have local mounts on top of remote > mounts?
At the moment I don't, but I have in the past and have no real doubt I will in the future. > I keep hearing about the theoretical possibility of /usr on nfs and > /usr/src or /usr/local on local ffs. Back when I worked with a smallish (10-20) farm of mostly-diskless machines, it was not uncommon to have most machines set up with an fstab that looked something like (to use NetBSD syntax) server:/nfs/root/myname / nfs rw server:/nfs/usr/myarch /usr nfs rw server:/nfs/home /home nfs rw kernfs /kern kernfs rw procfs /proc procfs rw and then one or two of them with real disk adding a line or two like /dev/sd0a /project ffs rw or /dev/wd0a /home/someone/something ffs rw Such machines could, of course, be set up as fully diskful. But in an environment like that the benefits of keeping the machines' setups _almost_ identical can easily outweigh the benefits of going diskful. > But you'd really have to go out of your way to set that up -- > certainly sysinst won't do that for you. Sysinst won't do lots of things many people want. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
