Re: [arch-general] Stateless Arch

2012-07-09 Thread Mantas Mikulėnas
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Leonid Isaev wrote: > AFAIK, but this can be wrong, the real problem with NM is not having read-only > resolv.conf, but protecting /etc/hosts... I don't see a problem with read-only /etc/hosts. It shouldn't contain anything other than "::1 localhost" anyway. Use ns

Re: [arch-general] Stateless Arch

2012-07-09 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Mon, 9 Jul 2012 10:51:11 +0200 Tom Gundersen wrote: >[...] > > What should work (but might not!): /etc and /usr (and /lib, /sbin, > /bin) should be able to be mounted read-only. I expect you'll have to > figure out how to deal with /etc/resolv.conf, I wonder if > NetworkManager has learnt how

Re: [arch-general] Stateless Arch

2012-07-09 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> /tmp is a tmpfs for a default Arch install, so you don't need to worry about > that. So it is, likely on the clients too and so may not have applied here anyway. -- Why not do something good every day and install BOINC. __

Re: [arch-general] Stateless Arch

2012-07-09 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Monday 09 Jul 2012 10:08:51 you wrote: > My setup has the nodes mounting root rw, but in practice they never touch it > except for when I run an upgrade or do some manual configuration, which I > usually do from a node (because it's easier). Oh, also, my setup has a separate root shared by the

Re: [arch-general] Stateless Arch

2012-07-09 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Monday 09 Jul 2012 10:11:43 Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > No experiece at all, but I'd say that /var must be writeable too. Think of > > it some like the /home of the system, so you should have one per machine > > in > > the NFS server. > And /tmp. /tmp is a tmpfs for a default Arch install, so you

Re: [arch-general] Stateless Arch

2012-07-09 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> > I'd use connman for handling the net connection and it seems to require a > > writable /var/lib/connman/ > > > > No experiece at all, but I'd say that /var must be writeable too. Think of > it some like the /home of the system, so you should have one per machine in > the NFS server. > > Jus

Re: [arch-general] Stateless Arch

2012-07-09 Thread Florian Pritz
On 09.07.2012 10:10, Damjan wrote: > Has anyone done any research on stateless ArchLinux instances. > > A stateless Arch would be one where the root filesystem is mounted > read-only and nothing changes there. Thus it can mounted over network > (using NFS, NBD and similar) by several, diskless,

Re: [arch-general] Stateless Arch

2012-07-09 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Monday 09 Jul 2012 10:10:07 Damjan wrote: > Has anyone done any research on stateless ArchLinux instances. > > A stateless Arch would be one where the root filesystem is mounted > read-only and nothing changes there. Thus it can mounted over network > (using NFS, NBD and similar) by several, di

Re: [arch-general] Stateless Arch

2012-07-09 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Damjan wrote: >> Has anyone done any research on stateless ArchLinux instances. >> >> A stateless Arch would be one where the root filesystem is mounted read-only >> and nothing changes there. Thus it can mou

Re: [arch-general] Stateless Arch

2012-07-09 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Damjan wrote: > Has anyone done any research on stateless ArchLinux instances. > > A stateless Arch would be one where the root filesystem is mounted read-only > and nothing changes there. Thus it can mounted over network (using NFS, NBD > and similar) by several,

Re: [arch-general] Stateless Arch

2012-07-09 Thread Rodrigo Rivas
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Damjan wrote: > I'd use connman for handling the net connection and it seems to require a > writable /var/lib/connman/ > No experiece at all, but I'd say that /var must be writeable too. Think of it some like the /home of the system, so you should have one per ma

[arch-general] Stateless Arch

2012-07-09 Thread Damjan
Has anyone done any research on stateless ArchLinux instances. A stateless Arch would be one where the root filesystem is mounted read-only and nothing changes there. Thus it can mounted over network (using NFS, NBD and similar) by several, diskless, PCs at the same time. I plan to have per u