Re: [tlug] /usr

[Mauro David Sauco <mauro@example.com>]

Hi,

Sorry if I say something already discussed, I haven't follow the discution and 
I'm to lazy to read it now :)..
Some questions :

So when you say "Diskless System" which specific system are you using ? 
When you say share , do you mean "NFS exported volume" ?

Normally, for security reasons people has a secondary root file system 
somewhere on the disk. so you boot the terminals and chroot to the secondary 
root file system on your server, in this way you don't expose your server. 
Moreover in this way you don have to export your directories one by one and  
you can also preserve the privileges. so that only root can modify critical 
system files... Also you avoid having mixing of configurations and you might 
have more than a secondary  root filesystem to point to and you might have 
different configurations according to the spec of your WStations ...

Regards,

//mauro//
Can you set up your Outlook to "Plain Text" instead of HTML ?
Thank you.
 

On Wednesday 10 July 2002 08:03 pm, hatsuhiro wrote:
> We suppose such a situation as to manage a diskless system with a single
> HDD among several machines in a local network for a small group. The
> question was which directories are convenient to share among the machines
> and which shouldn't be.
>
>            ----------  Categories  ----------
> /{boot, etc, proc, tmp, var} are machine-specific, non-sharable.
> /{bin, dev, lib, opt, sbin} can be read-only sharable.
> /{home, root} can be read-wright sharable.
>            ------------------------------  tell me if wrong.
>
> I had tried sharing /usr among diskless clients and an NFS server, then the
> GUI doesn't work properly at all. After that, only sharing /{root, home
> (rw), opt (ro)} does well for a short test.
>
> However, the directory /usr occupies 66% in capacity of the whole / in
> Slack,8, /opt 30%, and the others 3% approximately. Though the directory
> /usr is complicated, can we disscuss more about its subdirectories? The key
> point to save a single HD is to share /usr as much as possible. The
> directory should be devided into the categories.
>
> Hoshino