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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Weird "df" output
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 13:53:53
Message-Id: CAGfcS_nqr6yAnwiuorznXeoVcX+1PAMnv1hm585qfV=_1Q3gqQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Weird "df" output by lee
1 On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 5:57 AM, lee <lee@××××××××.de> wrote:
2 > Mark David Dumlao <madumlao@×××××.com> writes:
3 >> wrt symlinks, some legacy tools, and regular unix tools have a completely
4 >> different behavior when traversing symlinks as opposed to regular
5 >> directories, which bindmounts emulate. although in practice i imagine it
6 >> wont affect him.
7 >
8 > Which tools come to mind?
9 >
10
11 As I mentioned earlier, I believe portage doesn't like it if /usr or
12 /var are symlinks. But, I'm going from memory - it has been a while
13 since I had to bind-mount them.
14
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16 Rich