Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> writes:
> dhclient requires /var to be mounted :-/
> 
> dhclient should be changed to use a directory in /etc (/etc/dhcp/ maybe?).

That's a step away from a shareable/read-only /.  That makes it a bad
thing.  8-)

e.g. with the Shark, we created a read-only shareable root partition
that you could boot multiple clients off of simultaneously.  being
able to support that, _especially_ when using diskless clients with
dhcp, is somewhat important.



cgd
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