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Re: LIP General issues



Ira Abramov <ira@scso.com> wrote:
|since this isn't a server but a standalone system you want to copy with
|dd, I don't think the logs will matter much in the 5-10 minutes it takes
|to remount ro, dd the disk and remount rw. don't you agree?

I was refering to the fact that some system processes might break if
the filesystem can't be writen.

I'm thinking of this situation mainly because I remember back when
IRIX 4 arrived to HUJI CS we wanted to make it possible to share
read-only /usr among the client systems (they didn't have /var back
then, added after I requested it), and had to go through many reboot
cycles to find all the programs that broke because of it.

--Amos

--Amos Shapira                    | "Of course Australia was marked for
133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st.          |  glory, for its people had been chosen
Jerusalem 93 805                  |  by the finest judges in England."
ISRAEL             amos@dsi.co.il |                     -- Anonymous


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