Re: r38572 - in trunk/src/debian-edu-config: debian sbin

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Daniel Hess]
> We need to replace the symlink from /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts with
> something containing the data of /proc/mounts initially and then is
> writeable. Bindmounts on top of symlinks don't seem to work.
> 
> Maybe be could bindmount subdirds to the directory we bindmount
> later on top of /etc, than we don't need to copy the whole thing.

Hm.  It is not enough to have /etc/mtab writable (I tried).  Mount
will try to create /etc/mtab~, and this require /etc/ to be writable
too.  mtab~ can not be a symlink to a writable area (I tried this
too), nor can it be a bind-mount because it is used as a lock to make
sure only one mount command is running.

What about modifying the mount command to be able to write its files
to /var/run/ or /var/lock/ instead?

>> If there isn't, it is probably better to use the normal LTSP features
>> to list /etc/ in $rw_dirs in /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/default/ltsp-client-setup.
> 
> This would enable it by default, even on normal thinclients, that
> normally could coexist to diskless workstations.

Good point.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen