Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "Benedikt Böhm" <hollow@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [rfc] layman storage location (again)
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:20:28
Message-Id: 477338b91001170019n61ed3757xa8125a1f3c57de41@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [rfc] layman storage location (again) by Sebastian Pipping
1 On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 12:55 AM, Sebastian Pipping <sping@g.o> wrote:
2 > On 01/16/10 23:46, Benedikt Böhm wrote:
3 >> One thing all you /usr naggers forget is, that /var cannot be shared
4 >> read-only via nfs (or bind mounts in case of virtual servers).
5 >
6 > Why is that?  Please tell more.
7
8 Maybe you should actually read the FHS. You can of course share
9 specific subdirectories of /var read-only and still be compliant, but
10 /usr is specifically designed to be completely shareable read-only.