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Re: Correct Directory for networkboot clients



Steve Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net> writes:

> On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 09:46:55AM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 02:38:32PM +0200, Daniel J. Priem wrote:
> > > The rootfilesystem is writable but will be normaly not changed. Only on
> > > Startup the configfiles for the client will be created / linked
> 
> > Still, conceptually, a root filesystem is "state" information for the 
> > netbootable client.  Even if the default policy is to not change the root 
> > filesystem, is that written in stone?
> 
> It's often shared between multiple clients -- it should be read-only for 
> normal operations.
> 
> FWIW, I seem to have a /usr/lib/lts/i386-linux directory on my system; I
> think this was an upstream default.  Since all of the files under there
> are merely "data" to the host system, /usr/share/ltsp/i386-linux is
> probably fine.

Then it must be read-only. To the client and the server. No changing
of links or hostame or anything in there.

You can of cause link some file to var and keep the static files there
(if that works).

MfG
        Goswin



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