Hello,
On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 10:41:05AM -0800, Mike Castle wrote:
> I did that for years.
>
> Then again, when I started doing that, I was using PLIP over a
> null-printer cable. But even after I could afford larger harddrives
> (so I had room to install /usr), and Ethernet cards (and later a hub),
> I still ran /usr over NFS.
You can still do it if you want, as long as your initramfs mounts
/usr from nfs, which I'm pretty sure it will without any difficulty
if you have the correct entry in /etc/fstab. I don't think anything
has gone out of its way to break that use it's just that it's been
given up on, and I don't blame Debian for that since it would mean
lots of work to bend upstream authors to a use case that they have
no interest in.
Time moved on and the way to do "immutable OS" evolved.
Just a couple of days ago I retired a Debian machine that had been
running constantly for 18½ years from the mostly-read-only 512M
CompactFlash boot device it came with. 😀
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Thanks,
Andy
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