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From: Stefaan <stefaan@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuilds creating mountpoints
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 22:58:33
Message-Id: 28edf05e0601071454m644b192by326c4c13835db59f@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuilds creating mountpoints by "Petteri Räty"
1 On 1/7/06, Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@g.o> wrote:
2 > Stefaan wrote:
3 > > The obvious solution seems to do "keepdir", so portage would attempt
4 > > to make the directory and put a .keep file in there. I say attempt,
5 > > because the following problem will occur during an re-merge or
6 > > upgrade, while the mountpoint is in use:
7 >
8 > Strange that I haven't seen any problems with pmount which does keepdir
9 > for /media.
10
11 I don't use pmount myself, but my guess is that /media is just a
12 directory that contains mountpoints, and which remains at all time
13 writeable for root. /afs is not writeable when mounted, just like
14 /dev/cdrom etc...
15
16 Stefaan
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Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuilds creating mountpoints Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>