On Jul 27, 2006, at 1:47 PM, Nix, Robert P. wrote:
because you can't just use the tools supplied by the vendor to do the maintenance; you have to do something extra to catch all the extra fallout. I think, for this reason, most people have abandoned the shared /usr concept, and are just allocating the space and maintaining each system as if it was a stand-alone box. I could be wrong, though.
You *can* use the vendor supplied tools, you just have to be very careful about it, and maintain apply disks and cache disks that get thrown away because they provide mirrored r/w copies of what's on the r/o system, and by the time you've done all the shuttling to and from single user mode to update /usr like that, yeah, you probably cost yourself more in time than you saved in disk. OTOH, unionfs is a much easier approach. Adam ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
