Re: Bug#652011: general: Repeated pattern of FHS violation: Dependencies of /sbin and /bin, belong in /lib
Thomas Goirand <thomas@goirand.fr> writes:
> Oh, and when I'm at it, how do you implement /usr as read only,
> (over nfs for example)? This is a quite common setup in large
> organization / universities.
I really don't believe this is true any more. We used to do stuff like
this and stopped doing it a long time ago, and that's what I hear from my
peers. Local disk space is cheap and local package management is now
easy, and doing this sort of trick is now really a waste of time and a
good way to make all your computers unnecessarily slow.
There are still some diskless systems, but those systems don't mount /usr
over NFS. They mount / over NFS, which is a different problem entirely.
Mounting /usr but not / is not a diskless configuration; it's a very rare
hybrid mode with a small local disk, and now that local disk is so cheap
(even with embedded devices with flash memory), it's mostly just a bad
idea.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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