* Marcus Brinkmann (Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de) wrote: > On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 04:12:27PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > In other words, it does not work at the moment but should be soon? > > (reason I'm wondering is that Hurd have long proclaimed they would > > not use /usr since they had shadowfs, which always sounded a bit > > premature to me). > > Thomas answer was to the point, but to elaborate on that: shadowfs is not > the answer to dropping /usr, but the answer to people who say: We want to > seperate files on a small / partition and on a larger /usr partition > (with having / only the essential files needed for booting). shadowfs will > allow them to do just that (and much more of course). Can you shadow between a local / and an NFS-mounted /usr? Stephen
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