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From: Christian Bricart <christian@×××××××.de>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] remote /usr
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 07:15:24
Message-Id: 45791073.2040708@bricart.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-server] remote /usr by Alex Efros
1 Alex Efros schrieb:
2 > Hi!
3 >
4 > On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 01:53:05PM +0100, Christian Bricart wrote:
5 >> Drawbacks:
6 >> according to FHS /usr may be a remote filesystem, but /etc/localtime has
7 >> to exist during boot.
8 >
9 > Can anybody in _this_ maillist confirm importance of "remote /usr" support?
10
11 quoting from http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#THEUSRHIERARCHY
12 [..]
13 /usr is the second major section of the filesystem. /usr is shareable,
14 read-only data. That means that /usr should be shareable between various
15 FHS-compliant hosts and must not be written to. Any information that is
16 host-specific or varies with time is stored elsewhere.
17 [..]
18
19 Christian
20
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Re: [gentoo-server] remote /usr Alex Efros <powerman@××××××××××××××××××.com>