How about read-only, as in CD-ROM, nounted about 1/2" back behind the front,
to hide it?

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> From: 	woods@weird.com
> Reply To: 	port-i386@netbsd.org
> Sent: 	Monday, July 9, 2001 1:00 PM
> To: 	Jenkins, Graham K [IBM GSA]; port-i386@netbsd.org
> Subject: 	RE: Terminal server
> 
> [ On Monday, July 9, 2001 at 15:41:09 (+0100), David Brownlee wrote: ]
> > Subject: RE: Terminal server
> >
> > 	If the disks in the hosts are large enough you might want to
> > 	consider running them with readonly filesystems - just mount
> > 	an mfs over /var and extract a tarfile into it during boot.
> > 	You gain all the performance of local disk (slightly more as
> > 	you do not need to update atimes), plus complete immunity from
> > 	those powercord pullers...
> 
> Oh, yes, of course!  I keep forgetting the read-only idea for some reason.
> 
> Oddly I think I've tested read-only NFS mounts for /usr though....
> 
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