Jack Schwartz wrote:
> Hi Dave.
> 
> Talking with Bart on Weds, we realized that in order for Driver Update 
> to install any package with a driver, including those with manpages or 
> other goodies, the /usr filesystem will need to be writable.
> 
> Possible options:
> 
> Moinak blogged about a filesystem module where original files could be 
> from a lofi-mounted source, and new files could be written into RAM.  
> (Ref: Caiman-discuss:  
> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=323712&#323712 )
> 
> Bart thought Tim M might also have something.

So, /usr/sbin is already writable.  At least, I've written an fdisk 
wrapper script to it to get around some partitioning issues...

I don't know how much of the rest of /usr is writable though or what the 
limitations are.  Have you tried this just to see what works/doesn't?

Cheers,
-- 
Shawn Walker

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