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Daniel Campbell (zlg) posted on Mon, 03 Aug 2015 16:38:59 -0700 as |
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> So say I want to have an ownCloud instance that provides a single /usr |
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> or /etc for any Gentoo system that wants it on my local network. Is that |
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> a use case that would benefit from this new mounting? |
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Well, both /etc/ and /usr/ would have the same problems as separate |
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partitions that they do now, particularly /etc/, in that you quickly run |
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into a chicken and egg problem trying to put /etc/ on non-root, because |
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that's where all the configuration that tells the system how to mount |
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other filesystems including the would-be /etc is placed. |
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But it should work for /home , /svr, /var/www, and any user-optional |
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mounts like /multimedia or whatever. It should also work for /var/log, |
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tho that might require a bit more dependency futzing in other services, |
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and potentially /var itself. And it /might/ work for /usr, tho that's |
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tending toward more problematic as time goes on, since the leading |
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distros don't usually support that except when mounted in initr*, these |
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days. |
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But the only practical way to do /etc as a separate mount is with it |
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mounted in the initr*, and I /think/ that has been at least the norm, not |
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the exception, since at least shortly after initr* was introduced, and |
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possibly since /etc itself was introduced to Unix, pre-Linux. It has |
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certainly been that way since I got into Linux at the turn of the century. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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