On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 15:52 -0600, Richard Megginson wrote: > > Then editing the /etc/named.conf file no longer modifies the real > > source file at /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf. > That's bad, and exactly what would/could happen with my proposal. Even > if we swap the direction of the symlinks, it would still break in the > other way i.e. if you tried to do the same thing under > /opt/fedora-ds/slapd-instance/config - and if you tried to > backup/restore with tar, you would either be getting only the symlinks, > or if following symlinks, they would be broken upon restore. > > So, is there a way to have both? If not symlinks, then what? > > If the FHS layout is used, but all of the actual directory data winds up under something like /var/lib/fedora-ds/<instance-name>/, wouldn't that suffice for making backup/restores easy and the like? Maybe there would also be a corresponding /etc/fedora-ds/<instance-name> directory for config files and such, but the actual DBs under /var. I normally don't worry too much about backing up executables and libraries that are just stock RPMs as I can always recreate that portion of the environment. The data is certainly the other story. -- David Hollis <dhollis at davehollis.com> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/389-users/attachments/20060719/85fee4bf/attachment.bin
