On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 11:40:50AM -0500, Brian Elliott Finley wrote: > It would allow us to have a heirarchical tftp system. We wouldn't have > to copy kernels down to a flat namespace (/tftpboot/*). And would allow > us to boot ia64 and ia32 machines (and perhaps others) simultaneously. > > Any dissenters?
/usr should be able to be kept r/o.
As a datapoint, Mandrake creates /var/lib/tftp IIRC. This abides by FHS
(var is a writable point), and isolates the tftp access further down the
tree.
-Sean
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