On 1/7/06, Petteri Räty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stefaan wrote: > > The obvious solution seems to do "keepdir", so portage would attempt > > to make the directory and put a .keep file in there. I say attempt, > > because the following problem will occur during an re-merge or > > upgrade, while the mountpoint is in use: > > Strange that I haven't seen any problems with pmount which does keepdir > for /media.
I don't use pmount myself, but my guess is that /media is just a directory that contains mountpoints, and which remains at all time writeable for root. /afs is not writeable when mounted, just like /dev/cdrom etc... Stefaan -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
