* Charles Steinkuehler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004:03:13:21:51:06-0600] scribed: > Michael D Schleif wrote: > >`not be hard-coded' is _exactly_ what I am referring to. > > > >I don't know how you are doing this; but, I can see value in having some > >arbitrary director(y|ies) persist across reboots -- in some applications. > > > >So, unless I am misunderstanding the previous dialog on this matter, I > >am suggesting that, instead of limiting this to `/var/log' and `/tmp', > >you may consider creating this so that an admin can also do same with > >`/home', or some other arbitrary directory. > > > >Am I making any sense? > > OK, I'm understanding what you're after now. I probably wouldn't have > thought about this, but it should be fairly easy to support, espeically > if I fold /tmp into the processing for /var/log (although the syntax > might be a bit cryptic...probably a shell variable to indicate which > directories are to be mounted). > > Note that it's probably better to mount things like /home using the > normal init scripts, rather than linuxrc.
NOTE: I do not -- at this moment -- have a real application for this. Needing some example directory, /home is the first non-system directory that came to mind, and that also made some sense in this context. > To increase the overall flexability of the new leaf.cfg file, it would > probably be good to make some 'hooks' (shell functions) that get called > once the root filesystem is mounted, and maybe before & after extracting > packages. That would allow a custom leaf.cfg file to do things like > mount arbitrary filesystems wherever desired in the heirearchy (ie: > /usr, /var, or even /etc, if desired). I believe that the additional work to accomplish this extends the flexibility of the overall system, which adds value. -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 877.596.8237 - Dare to fix things before they break . . . - Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . --
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