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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: uucp cleanup script (SysVr4.0)
Message-ID: <8267@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 7 Jun 91 18:20:15 GMT
References: <1991May27.090222.9635@metapro.DIALix.oz.au> <8062@auspex.auspex.com> <1991May30.101430.15990@grep.co.uk>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>I'm intrigued as to how diskless clients are supported under this
>massive sym-linking exercise, since they have no local disks, how do
>the sym-links point to an area of disk which is for that machine only?

Easy.  Each diskless machine has its own root file system, the root of
which is a per-machine directory on a file system on its server, e.g.:

	bootme% /etc/mount
	alpha1-e4:/export0/root/bootme on / type nfs (rw)
		...

>NB: With CDFs /usr can't be mounted read-only, but then somehow most
>machines seem to be able to survive that at the moment.

There's lots of things you can survive without, but it may be convenient
to have "/usr" read-only.