[884] in NetBSD-Development
Re: NetBSD configuration for dialup
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Fri Jul 21 21:03:56 1995
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>, bug-dialup@MIT.EDU, pc-dialup@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 Jul 1995 17:48:46 EDT."
<199507212148.RAA07050@lola-granola.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1995 21:03:19 EDT
From: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>
I would tend to agree that I would not choose to implement
many of these suggestions on a system I administer. However, I think
you are over estimating the impact of the suggestions:
1) The srvd is already mounted read-only on dialups; this means that
there is already a substancial amount of software that is virtually
immutable and would require single-user mode to change.
2) It is unclear that you want the ability to change the running
kernel on a dialup; you normally reboot to install a new kernel.
Therefore, depending on the difficulty of making AFS a link-time
module (something that may not require John's help; it might be fairly
simple), removing LKM support might be reasonable. I don't know; I'm
just presenting options.
--Sam
