Re: Sharing /var between systems

[Craig White <craig tobyhouse com>]

On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 21:54 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I have Fedora-7 and Fedora-8 on the same computer.
> Can I share /var between them?
> (I have the Fedora-7 /var on a separate partition.
> If possible, I'd like to use this with the new system.)
> 
> Any suggestions gratefully received.
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wouldn't seem very practical to me...

mysql or postgresql would be instant dealbreakers...probably other sql
like sqlite too but I don't know much about it.

different versions of db4 would break things somewhere it would seem.

sparse files...

just seems to be a really bad idea

Craig