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From: slcpi!poseidon!escott@uunet.uu.net (E. Scott Menter)
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Subject: Re: damaged /usr partition
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> what's the argument that says /usr should be r/o on the server?

Just that, that it's nice not to have to worry about it.  Even so, if it's
mounted rw on the server but ro on the clients, the chance for corruption
is quite small.  And most of what you need is in /sbin anyway, or at least
in miniroot 8^).

Scott Menter
Shearson Lehman Hutton
escott@shearson.com