[plug] Boot Sequence and dependant files.

[Cameron Patrick]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 03:25:26PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:

| >The clients in question are diskless clients and so are mounting the root 
| >directory from the server via NFS
| >Basically I am trying to make a client's root footprint as small as 
| >possible as this is stored on the server and exported via NFS. 
| 
| You _will_ run into problems with NFS root and Debian (or any normal 
| distro). Currently most distros assume that the root FS is read/write, 
| and since you really shouldn't be exporting the rootfs read/write they 
| run into trouble with things like mtab and all sorts of other things. 
| This can be worked around to a fair degree by having bind-mounting 
| subdirectories of a ramdisk to various places like /tmp, /var/tmp, 
| /var/run, etc and using symlinks from other places to the ramdisk. 
| Nonetheless, it's a pain.

There's a Debian ro-root howto kicking around somewhere, too, which
might be helpful.

http://panopticon.csustan.edu/thood/readonly-root.html

Cameron.


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