[tech] mop on hydra

[Ian McKellar]

On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 04:41:49PM +0800, Nick Bannon wrote:
> 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.

The real issue with NFS (as far as I see it) is that if its down the bootup
process hangs for a few minutes. This sucks. We /should/ be able to disable
reverse lookups for sshd, but I can't see where...
> 
> > 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.

I like it too. I also like the idea of running a journaled filesystem on
the root. However that hasn't happened. I'm sure if someone was enthused
it could be done.

Ian