>>>>> "fission" == fission  <fission@mb.sympatico.ca> writes:
    fission> On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Michael Richardson wrote:

    >> no_root_squash allows root to read/write. Since the kernel needs to read
    >> the root partition, and needs to use swap, and it does it as uid=0, you need
    >> no_root_squash.
    >> The other file systems do not need root write permissions, so why be more
    >> permissive than necessary. 

    fission> Why not?  What happens if I want to install something in /usr/local?  Then
    fission> I would need root write permissions on the /usr filesystem, right?

  Yes, but the system doesn't require that.

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