diskless: meaning of conf/base ?

From: Marco Molteni (molter_at_tin.it)
Date: 10/18/05

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Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 10:31:43 +0200

    Hi,

    lately I have been playing with diskless booting with 6.x and 7.x.
    I understand how the whole /conf overriding mechanism works, and
    I think it is useful.

    What I am missing is the usefulness of conf/base, especially
    conf/base/etc, that diskless(8) suggests to fill with the same
    etc in $disklessroot/etc.

    Let me say it in another way:

    conf/default/etc/ contains the overrides
    conf/base/etc/ contains the base etc that is overridden by the
                      files in default/etc

    since anyway below $disklessroot we have an already existing etc:
    $disklessroot/ect/, and since the normal way to initialize conf/base/etc
    is:

    cp -Rp $disklessroot/etc/ $disklessroot/conf/base/etc

    So we get 3 copies of etc that need to be kept synchronized:

    /etc
    $disklessroot/etc
    $disklessroot/conf/base/etc

    why do we need $disklessroot/conf/base/etc at all?

    I know that there is the possibility to use
    conf/base/etc/diskless_remount to avoid filling conf/base/etc, but
    anyway, my question remains. diskless_remount could be moved to,
    say, /conf.

    thanks
    marco
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