On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 11:42:24PM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote: > > Le 30/04/2015 20:16, John Morris a écrit : > >The FHS was carefully designed to accomodate things like NFS root, > >readonly NFS mounting of parts of the system, mandating things like > >*/share/ to only contain arch neutral data, etc. > > The whole FH can be shared by NFS root, except /var, which > cannot be shared entirely and /run (formerly /var/run) which cannot > be shared at all - talking about Debian's FH. > > The problem is /var/lib which must be carefully separated in two > parts to distinguish applications which keep common data (eg apt) > and applications which keep hardware-related data (eg ntpd). Then a > few dirty tricks are necessary to make the two categories look like > they are all in /var/lib. > > I don't know if the question of sharing the FH through NFS is > seriously addressed by the FHS; but, if it is, it fails. > > Didier
Years ago I heard that /usr could be mounted read-only, and even shared between different running copies of Linux by an NFS mount. But I've never seen a distro that took this seriously enough that a routine upgrade (with something like aptitude upgrade) would work. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
