cvs commit: src/share/examples/diskless clone_root

[Brooks Davis]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 12:05:43PM -0700, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 03:52:43PM +0000, Brooks Davis wrote:
> ...
> >   Hack around the fact that the current diskless scripts require some
> >   binaries in /usr before /usr is mounted by copying those files to the
> 
> this was fixed long ago, did the problem reappear somehow ?
> in case, the proper place to fix is the scripts in /etc/rc*, not
> put a bandaid here which has high chances of being broken again.

The problem is that currently there is no way to populate /var without a
minimum of mtree which lives in /usr.  Since /var is supposed to exist
before we mount /usr there's a dependency problem.  We should be able
to fix the mtree dependency now that bsdtar is available since we could
install a pax archive derived from the mtree file.  We also strongly
desire the creation of syslog files which currently requires newsyslog.
The requirement for touch might be removable but I haven't really tried
since the others are more fundamental.

My personal opinion is that there isn't a whole lot of reason to
configure a diskless system where / and /usr aren't on the same FS so I
never hit this problem on my own systems.

-- Brooks

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