[1790] in NetBSD-Development
Re: NetBSD installation from sipb-nfs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mhpower@MIT.EDU)
Sun Sep 20 14:09:42 1998
From: mhpower@MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 14:09:30 -0400
To: ghudson@MIT.EDU
Cc: rtfm-maintainers@MIT.EDU, netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[7104] in RTFM_Maintainers_Archive",
"[1789] in NetBSD-Development"
>/u3 currently has about 1.5GB free out of 2GB; would it be reasonable
>to export a directory from that partition?
This sounds like a good idea to me.
> I think the
>best way to do this is to make bloom-picayune do a nightly synctree of
>the NetBSD system packs onto an exported local disk partition.
Is it especially convenient to have file ownerships and permissions
(e.g., the presence of setuid-root files) exactly the same in the NFS
copy as in AFS? I suppose in theory this shouldn't be necessary
because the NetBSD installation processes run as root on the client,
but perhaps arranging to change the installed files afterwards
requires too much additional development work.
Anyway, if it turns out to be the right option to run the synctree as
root, I think it'd be best to have it run with tokens for
rcmd.bloom-picayune. Probably bloom-picayune's fstab should be changed
at some point to make its local mount of /u3 be nosuid, but I don't
think it's vital enough to have an outage just to make that change.
Matt
