On Wed, May 16, 2018, at 10:56 AM, Simon McVittie wrote:
>
> Projects like libostree and rpm-ostree might have some useful concepts
> or code for managing immutable, read-only rootfs or /usr deployments,
> since that's what they do: in an ostree-based OS, /usr is an
> atomically-updated
On Mi, 16.05.18 15:56, Simon McVittie (s...@collabora.com) wrote:
> On Wed, 16 May 2018 at 16:33:08 +0200, Antoine Pietri wrote:
> > On Wed, May 16 at 13:05 PM, Jérémy Rosen wrote:
> > > hmm, I think you could have the whole /var as a tmpfs and use
> > > systemd-tmpfiles
On Mi, 16.05.18 16:33, Antoine Pietri (antoine.piet...@gmail.com) wrote:
> Hi Jérémy,
>
> On Wed, May 16 at 13:05 PM, Jérémy Rosen wrote:
> > hmm, I think you could have the whole /var as a tmpfs and use
> > systemd-tmpfiles (man:tmpfiles.d) to initialize /var at startup
On Mi, 16.05.18 13:29, Antoine Pietri (antoine.piet...@gmail.com) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Our organization uses a diskless setup to boot hundreds of machines
> using a read-only NFS export of their common rootfs.
>
> To be able to run services that need to write in /var, we can't just
> have /var as a
On Wed, 16 May 2018 at 16:33:08 +0200, Antoine Pietri wrote:
> On Wed, May 16 at 13:05 PM, Jérémy Rosen wrote:
> > hmm, I think you could have the whole /var as a tmpfs and use
> > systemd-tmpfiles (man:tmpfiles.d) to initialize /var at startup by
> > copying some template
Hi Jérémy,
On Wed, May 16 at 13:05 PM, Jérémy Rosen wrote:
> hmm, I think you could have the whole /var as a tmpfs and use
> systemd-tmpfiles (man:tmpfiles.d) to initialize /var at startup by
> copying some template directory from a read-only location (typicalli in
> /usr)
hmm, I think you could have the whole /var as a tmpfs and use
systemd-tmpfiles (man:tmpfiles.d) to initialize /var at startup by
copying some template directory from a read-only location (typicalli in
/usr)
On 16/05/2018 13:29, Antoine Pietri wrote:
Hi,
Our organization uses a diskless
Hi,
Our organization uses a diskless setup to boot hundreds of machines
using a read-only NFS export of their common rootfs.
To be able to run services that need to write in /var, we can't just
have /var as a tmpfs, because it contains files installed by packages
that are required by some