On Jan 01, Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote: > Someone has already mentioned mounting /usr ro. But one generally has > to keep /etc rw. I don't think that the right way to address this is > to make /etc a mount point. I am not aware of any plan to make /etc a mount point, which indeed would pointless. On a merged /usr system the root file system only contains /boot, /etc, /var and /home while the OS proper is all in /usr.
> Anotheer example: I have a system which does a rather hackish NFS root > boot. It has its own / but uses /usr from the fileserver. This has > worked surprisingly well for a long time. With a merged /usr you would be able to serve the whole OS over NFS (and even share it among multiple systems without the constant threat of having / and /usr diverge) and only configuration + data from the local disk, which makes this kind of setup much more useful. -- ciao, Marco
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