[ On Monday, July 9, 2001 at 15:41:09 (+0100), David Brownlee wrote: ]
> Subject: RE: Terminal server
>
> 	If the disks in the hosts are large enough you might want to
> 	consider running them with readonly filesystems - just mount
> 	an mfs over /var and extract a tarfile into it during boot.
> 	You gain all the performance of local disk (slightly more as
> 	you do not need to update atimes), plus complete immunity from
> 	those powercord pullers...

Oh, yes, of course!  I keep forgetting the read-only idea for some reason.

Oddly I think I've tested read-only NFS mounts for /usr though....

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