Fedora 10 Live CD services (all necessary?)

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> said:
> Chris Adams (cmadams at hiwaay.net) said: 
> > > mdmonitor       0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
> > > 
> > > If system isn't using lvm or raid this service should be disabled.
> > 
> > mdmonitor is for Linux software RAID only, not LVM, and it only runs
> > when software RAID is configured.
> 
> Right, but that's the sort of thing that could be disabled on the Live
> image, and re-enabled once it's installed somewhere.

How is that kind of thing (differences between LiveCD and
LiveCD-transferred-to-disk) handled?

> > > These service should be disabled, I don't see that Desktop users need NFS...
> > 
> > Highly dependent on your environment (some places make great use of NFS
> > on the desktop).  This is the NFS client piece, not the server.  Some
> > home network storage appliances can be an NFS server to your desktops.
> 
> This should really be started some other way. Not doable for F10, though.

It'd be good if mount could request NFS client services on demand.
Could that be pushed into mount.nfs?  I guess there'd have to be some
IPC for locking, since mount can try multiple NFS mounts in parallel,
and you don't want multiple attempts to start the services in parallel.
-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.