Re: ZFS - mounting filesystems (Was CVS commit: src/etc)

[Konrad Schroder <perseant%hhhh.org@localhost>]

On 3/17/2022 5:52 AM, Taylor R Campbell wrote:

> Does anyone actually do this -- have local mounts on top of remote 
mounts?

> I keep hearing about the theoretical possibility of /usr on nfs and 
/usr/src or /usr/local on local ffs.

Not directly relevant to NetBSD, but the standard (IIRC) setup on the 
NeXT had a shared NFS-mounted / with a UFS /private mounted on top of 
it.  /etc, /var and /tmp were symlinks to /private/{etc,var,tmp} , so an 
individual NeXT could be in a separate administrative domain from the 
file server.  MacOS retains /private, and though I have never set one up 
that way, I can easily imagine it being the preferred setup for a 
compute farm.

Take care,

-Konead