From: Ronan Mullally <ronan@iol.ie>
To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] remote /usr
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 22:17:58 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612072216050.10605@office.4L> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061207220021.GD17171@home.power>
On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Alex Efros wrote:
> 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?
>
> In my experience remote /usr is very rare case nowadays and supporting it
> "by default" result in few very uncomfortable things - in addition to
> /etc/localtime example I can add grep ebuild which compile grep without
> perl regexp support (only because libperl is in /usr while grep is in /).
I use an NFS mounted /usr file system extensively, although not on gentoo
systems - I've not got any deployments running gentoo that are large
enough to make it worth the effort.
-Ronan
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-01 9:30 [gentoo-server] [friendly reminder] sys-libs/timezone-data and MySQL Francesco Riosa
2006-12-01 12:53 ` Christian Bricart
2006-12-07 22:00 ` [gentoo-server] remote /usr Alex Efros
2006-12-07 22:17 ` Ronan Mullally [this message]
2006-12-08 7:12 ` Christian Bricart
2006-12-08 13:43 ` Alex Efros
2006-12-08 14:08 ` Ronan Mullally
2006-12-08 14:41 ` Alex Efros
2006-12-08 18:23 ` Ronan Mullally
2006-12-09 0:33 ` Christian Bricart
2006-12-07 21:55 ` [gentoo-server] [friendly reminder] sys-libs/timezone-data and MySQL Alex Efros
2006-12-08 0:35 ` Francesco Riosa
2006-12-07 23:45 ` [gentoo-server] MySQL upgrade guide Alex Efros
2006-12-08 0:10 ` Alex Efros
2006-12-08 1:18 ` Francesco Riosa
2006-12-08 0:59 ` Francesco Riosa
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