Dave Miner wrote: > >> There's a lot of interesting possibilities, IMO, by creating a >> Read-Only Root FS, and it's worth consideration as the install is >> being re-worked. Could be out of your scope, but something to consider. >> >> Any thoughts? Alien concept? >> > > Not alien, it's been talked about off and on for a number of years; I > recall we had a horizontal-scaling strategy paper that some of us in > networking worked on a few years ago which advocated doing it. > > The devil, of course, is in the details, and there are a lot of them > here. Heck, while working on updating the Live Media project code to > work with snv_55 I just found over the weekend that Gnome 2.16's trying > to write font caches into a bunch of paths under /usr after initial boot > (and doesn't work at all without it), which I don't believe even works > with our read-only /usr for diskless clients. God knows the Live Media > project would be a lot easier if we already had this ;-) > > I'm guessing that Caiman may propose some amounts of change to the > system layout to make upgrades and so on easier and faster; we haven't > gone far enough down the road yet to suggest what they might be, but I > wasn't necessarily thinking we'd want to bite off the whole read-only > installation thing. I wouldn't discourage it, but depending on it seems > unnecessary. > > Dave > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss
Since /usr is supposed to be read-only, let's combined / and /usr. - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts
