> > If you're NFS-mounting the root filesystem, you need either different > > areas per machine, or local disk for workspace, e.g. for /var. > > /var is not enough, you also need some client-writeable files in /etc > and a writeable /media and /tmp (for X etc.). > Our solution is a per-host writeable NFS mount for /var and /etc/local > where we link all files from /etc to /etc/local that must be written > by clients (this is special and requires some maintenance tools we > developed for our distribution). /media is deployed as tmpfs which > works fine. /dev is not a problem anymore since 10.1 now uses a tmpfs > for /dev automatically. > /tmp is a local disk partition.
Maybe you might be interested in LTSP, the "Linux Terminal Server Project" [1]. They also use a single root filesystem mounted via NFS with a single central configuration file. Files that needs to be writeable are in a small symlinked ramdisk under /tmp. I use LTSP for diskless X-Terminal-Clients since some years and it works like a charm :-) [1] http://ltsp.org - Davey --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
