> If the NFS client is stable enough, I can mount some space from my > newer machine. On an old-style Un*x box, I'd put /usr over NFS. I > realize the Hurd disapproves of this, but is shadowfs in such a state > that I can do this? (Incidentally, I keep wishing Linux supported > shadowfs and translators...)
The nfs client is pretty stable in my experience. You cannot currently have /hurd, /servers, or /lib on nfs, but anything else should be fine (including /bin and /sbin, in theory anyway). shadowfs is not in fact implemented yet, so you can't do anything really snazzy. But you can probably make most of the /foo dirs be symlinks to /nfs-mount/foo where /nfs-mount is the nfs mount point.
