Re: [tlug] Apparently NFS settings can destroy a system.

[Edmund Edgar <lists@example.com>]

Dave:

So would "hosts", "exports", and "httpd.conf" be safe to symlink?

httpd.conf, yes. That won't be read until after all the filesystems the system normally uses get mounted.

exports, probably.

hosts, yes if /home is on a locally attached disk. But if in your case /home is actually an NFS-mounted partition on a remote machine, your system may be unable to find the NFS mount with the hosts file on it until it's read its hosts file, and you'll be back to There's A Hole In My Bucket.

Edmund