uucp cleanup script (SysVr4.0)
Guy Harris
guy at auspex.auspex.com
Sat Jun 8 04:20:15 AEST 1991
>I'm intrigued as to how diskless clients are supported under this
>massive sym-linking exercise, since they have no local disks, how do
>the sym-links point to an area of disk which is for that machine only?
Easy. Each diskless machine has its own root file system, the root of
which is a per-machine directory on a file system on its server, e.g.:
bootme% /etc/mount
alpha1-e4:/export0/root/bootme on / type nfs (rw)
...
>NB: With CDFs /usr can't be mounted read-only, but then somehow most
>machines seem to be able to survive that at the moment.
There's lots of things you can survive without, but it may be convenient
to have "/usr" read-only.
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