From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GsZx5-0003UC-S6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 08 Dec 2006 07:15:24 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kB87EiAp026396; Fri, 8 Dec 2006 07:14:44 GMT Received: from magrathea.aachalon.de (magrathea.aachalon.de [81.24.35.71]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kB87Cpme032427 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2006 07:12:52 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.44] (port-212-202-5-124.dynamic.qsc.de [212.202.5.124]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by magrathea.aachalon.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id A98A740686 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2006 08:12:51 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <45791073.2040708@bricart.de> Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 08:12:51 +0100 From: Christian Bricart User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-server@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] remote /usr References: <456FF627.9090005@gentoo.org> <45822.80.87.162.74.1164977585.squirrel@aachalon.de> <20061207220021.GD17171@home.power> In-Reply-To: <20061207220021.GD17171@home.power> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a906aa42-8fe8-461f-98d6-41e263163c92 X-Archives-Hash: 3e58332fe4124e1bead1f3d41466dee3 Alex Efros schrieb: > Hi! > > On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 01:53:05PM +0100, Christian Bricart wrote: >> Drawbacks: >> according to FHS /usr may be a remote filesystem, but /etc/localtime has >> to exist during boot. > > Can anybody in _this_ maillist confirm importance of "remote /usr" support? quoting from http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#THEUSRHIERARCHY [..] /usr is the second major section of the filesystem. /usr is shareable, read-only data. That means that /usr should be shareable between various FHS-compliant hosts and must not be written to. Any information that is host-specific or varies with time is stored elsewhere. [..] Christian -- gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list