> On Tuesday 18 June 2002 22:21, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: > > > Can you mount /usr as ro and /usr/share (or as far down the /usr/share > > > path you list as you feel necessary) as rw? > > > > You must be able to mount /usr ro. Period. /usr/share is for system > > independent _non-volatile_ data. /var is for volatile data. You may even > > think about /var/share - but mostly volatile data is system dependent so > > it makes no sense. > > > > -andrej > > I agree that it wouldn't make sense to do, but if the guy wants to do it, we > may as well treat it as an interesting puzzle to solve. Sometimes weird > ideas turn into great ones. (And most are red herrings at best, but only > time will tell.) >
Actually he did not _want_ to do it; he was _forced_ to do it. It is old more or less often discussed problem of choosing /usr to put changed data (dynamically generated menus - apps-mdk, kdm configuration, what else ...) Sure the suggestion to mount /usr/share as rw may be workaround, but my point was (sorry if it was not clear) that you should not need such workaround. Several times it was hinted that file system usage may change in 9.0. May be this problem is finally solved as well. -andrej
