Re: ifupdown writes to /etc... a bug?

[Goswin Brederlow <goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Brian May <bam@debian.org> writes:

> On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 12:54:16PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > > On the NFS-mounted root file system which is shared among all disk-less
> > > systems?
> > 
> > Um, that would make it *worse*, not better.  If /etc/network/ifstate is
> > shared, ifupdown will be hopelessly confused about which interfaces are
> > up or down.
> 
> I don't think you can feasibly hve /etc shared just yet.

servers can serve files with a host pre or postfix instead of the real
file or programms fall back to such files. You would use something
like /etc/fstab%host% then.

Or build seperate directories with links to a common dir except for
host specific files.

With a pool of identical machines there is very little thats host
dependent. Come to think of it with dhcp you can configure the network
and whats then left thats host specific?

MfG
        Goswin