On Thu, 2015-01-22 at 15:54 -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 01:36:35PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > There's a proposed anaconda patch ATM which would disallow > > mounting an existing partition as /boot or /var (or any > > subdirectory of those except /var/www ) without reformatting it. > > i.e., you can't reuse an existing partition with those mountpoints. > > Well, somebody with a carefully crafted configuration in > /var/named/, for example, presumably will be not very happy. I > wonder why /var/www/ is singled out for a special treatment? > > The main driving force for this is > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1074358 > > And /var comes into this picture how? Just curious. As I mentioned, it's a re-use of an existing bit of logic; I don't have the history behind the exact list of mountpoints handy, but you can likely track it out from the commit history and Bugzilla. I would imagine we became aware of multiple cases where re-using an existing /var caused problems. It could obviously cause issues with package manager databases for e.g. As for /var/www , if I had to bet, the check for /var was introduced and then someone complained that it covered /var/www but re-using /var/www is safe, so the exception was added. More exceptions can be added if desired, it's a simple list. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
