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 1GsRbY-0007Bm-O8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Dec 2006 22:20:37 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kB7MJxhT007215; Thu, 7 Dec 2006 22:19:59 GMT Received: from mail.4L.ie (mail.4L.ie [193.27.1.25]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kB7MI1OQ011743 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2006 22:18:01 GMT Received: from oook.4L.ie (host81-157-45-17.range81-157.btcentralplus.com [81.157.45.17]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "oook.4L.ie", Issuer "CA Cert Signing Authority" (verified OK)) by mail.4L.ie (Postfix) with ESMTP id 261F717833 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2006 22:18:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from office.4L (office.4L [192.168.1.106]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by oook.4L.ie (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A3AD2F4D for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2006 22:17:58 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 22:17:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Ronan Mullally X-X-Sender: ronan@office.4L To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] remote /usr In-Reply-To: <20061207220021.GD17171@home.power> Message-ID: References: <456FF627.9090005@gentoo.org> <45822.80.87.162.74.1164977585.squirrel@aachalon.de> <20061207220021.GD17171@home.power> 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 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Archives-Salt: 41402573-ac4d-499b-8f99-311a1aa8e233 X-Archives-Hash: 05f287c56dc1e84019190bdfc7fe6cd0 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 -- gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list