[tech] mop on hydra

[Nick Bannon]

On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 04:32:10PM +0800, Duncan Sargeant wrote:
> I'd consider it bad juju, however NFS confusion is hardly likely to
> disable the router's main function.

I think it's a "not needed? get rid of it" situation... Actually, doing
the same with DNS might be wise, too - if nothing else, sshd will hang
for minutes if it can't look up names.

> As a precaution though, a small ramdisk out of which everything
> important runs after boot might be a good idea.  It would be neato to
> mirror it with a hard disk partition. *beam*

I like it.

[...]
> viw prevents this from occurring.  Administration tools which come out
> of iiNet are necessarily stupid proof.

Yeah, except our copy of viw isn't working... Bringing up the editor,
but not gaining the lock.

Nick.

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