Re: deprecating /usr as a standalone filesystem?
On Thu, May 07 2009, Ben Finney wrote:
> Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:
>
>> On Thu, May 07 2009, Josselin Mouette wrote:
>>
>> > Le jeudi 07 mai 2009 à 11:02 +1000, Ben Finney a écrit :
>> >> Those who want a read-only ‘/usr’ don't seriously try to leave it
>> >> read-only while installing or upgrading packages, do they?
>>
>> ,----[ Excerpt from /etc/apt/apt.conf ]
>> | DPkg
>> | {
>> | // Auto re-mounting of a readonly /usr
>> | Pre-Invoke {"mount -o remount,rw /usr";};
>> | Post-Invoke {"mount -o remount,ro /usr";};
>> | };
>> `----
>
> Exactly. So this is *not* “leave /usr read-only while installing or
> upgrading packages”. Thanks for providing another case in point.
No. But we do leave /usr read-only the rest of the time, which
is often 99.999% of the time. A separate /usr is required for this.
manoj
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