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On Thu, 2014-04-10 at 08:02 -0500, Jeremiah Jahn wrote:
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On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 5:46 AM, Fabian Deutsch <<A HREF="mailto:fabiand@redhat.com">fabiand@redhat.com</A>> wrote:
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> Am Donnerstag, den 10.04.2014, 09:19 +0300 schrieb Itamar Heim:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">>> On 04/09/2014 11:01 PM, Jeremiah Jahn wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">>> > I'm assuming the answer is no. But for some reason I seem to be</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373">>> the answer is yes actually. if you want a host you can change, use plain</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">>> fedora/rhel/centos as the host.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">>> Fabian can reply to the rest.</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373">> Yep. Node has a read-only root filesystem, which has some overlays to</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> allow limited changes.</FONT>
And yet I've been able to edit the /etc/hosts file before this
problem? Does it go readonly after a while?
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Actually /etc is mounted in tmpfs so not persistent:<BR>
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cat /proc/mounts |grep etc<BR>
none /etc tmpfs rw,rootcontext=system_u:object_r:var_lib_t:s0,seclabel,relatime 0 0<BR>
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So if you want to change things you have to change it in "/config/etc/"<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373">>> the answer is yes actually. if you want a host you can change, use plain</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373">>> fedora/rhel/centos as the host.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">>> Fabian can reply to the rest.</FONT>
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You can just as easily do a "mount -o rw,remount /" to edit things if you want but you have to do this on every node and again after upgrading to a newer version of node.
I see it's there in the wiki:
http://www.ovirt.org/Node_Troubleshooting#Making_changes_on_the_host
Kind regards,
Jorick Astrego
Netbulae B.V.
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