On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 09:41 -0600, Jeff Law wrote: > Horst H. von Brand wrote: > > Jeff Law <law@xxxxxxxxxx> 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. ?!? I am confused by this answer. /etc reflects a machine's local configuration, i.e. most in /etc/ is not shareable. Or conversely: Those files in /etc/ which are shareable, likely should not be in /etc. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
