Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: "wdk@.moriah" <billk@×××××××××.au>
To: "gentoo-user@l.g.o" <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way!
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 01:14:41
Message-Id: 7ADC2984-5B4F-439A-8CDB-A023697E528F@iinet.net.au
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way! by Alan McKinnon
1 Have two here - disk less atoms as mythtv front ends - seems a common use case in the mythtv world. And another advantage is they sidestep the whole /user mess :)
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3 BillK
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6 On 20/03/2012, at 7:49, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
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8 > On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:33:39 +0000
9 > Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
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11 >> As for making /usr read-only; it is generally only writeable by root
12 >> and anyone with the root password could remount rw anyway, so there's
13 >> not much point there.
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15 > I was thinking here more of /usr mounted -t nfs
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17 > root on nfs client != root on nfs server
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19 > hence the need for rootsquash.
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21 > But these days that setup is becoming a niche thing, the last one I saw
22 > was in a university lab and I've never actually admined one myself.
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25 > --
26 > Alan McKinnnon
27 > alan.mckinnon@×××××.com
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Re: [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way! Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>