Re: Strange NFS messages: "lockd: cannot monitor..."
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 11:30:15 +0100, Terje Fåberg wrote:
> (1) initrd creates a new tmpfs
> (2) initrd copies the image of the root file-system
> minus /usr into that tmpfs
> (3) mount /usr from server in read-only mode
> (4) initrd pivots to the tmpfs
>
> This way no data on the server needs to be writable
> at all.
The clients will also want to be able to write to /etc/mtab and will
probably need to be able to write a few logs in /var/log. Might be
worth checking the 'securing debian' howto, that suggests having a
read-only local root on systems for security reasons, and probably has
notes on how to cope with the few bits that need to be written to (symlinks?).
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