NetworkworkManger and network based filesystem /usr

Jeff Law law at redhat.com
Mon Sep 15 15:41:06 UTC 2008


Horst H. von Brand wrote:
> Jeff Law <law at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>   
>> It  must die die die.  We're far better off making root filesystems
>> sharable and readonly.
>>     
>
> /etc at the very least is a /intensely/ personal issue for each machine...
> We had local / and shared /usr and so on for ages under assorted Unices
> here, and then for Linux. True, today disks are much cheaper; but old
> habits are long in dying.
>   
union filesystems are the answer for those (very few) items in /etc 
which are not sharable.

Jeff





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