Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de> writes:
> I guess I can share all but var (using a hard link farm on the NFS server)
> if I get name and network interface configuration by dhcp?

For the Shark distributions we at DEC did, we actually included a
'var.tar.gz' in the root FS, and made /var an MFS and untarred that
into it at startup.

Yes, totally contrary to that spirit of /var, but it served a purpose.
If your mail spools are elsewhere, and you're sending log messages
elsewhere, and you don't mind losing the contents of /var/tmp etc.,
it's a reasonable solution.  8-)


The other thing you need to worry about, for mounting root read-only
is /dev/log, which syslogd wants to create at startup.  we got around
this by populating /dev, but also including a mimum dev.tar.gz,
moiunting /dev as an MFS, and then populating it.



cgd
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