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Re: Cluster Administration



Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> writes:

> On Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 10:49:14AM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote:
> > the FHS, user is nicely divided in host specific/arch
> > specific/unspecific stuff. Unfortunately, /etc is NOT, although that
> > would be VERY nice.
> 
> How is your /etc distributed? If NFS, the transname patch (IIRC, or maybe
> it is even built in now) allows you to name files things like 
> /etc/somefile#HOSTNAME=blah# or similar; when blah asks for /etc/somefile,
> it gets that file instead of just /etc/somefile.

We wanted to use AFS, and I think it doesn't support that. But that's
not actually my point.

My point is that currently, and also with the new FHS, you have to
check *every single file* in /etc whether you want to share it. That
was the problem in /usr, too, until it was cleanly divided in /share
and /lib. Making this easier was the point of the FHS, but IMHO with
/etc, they didn't achive it.

	Falk


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