Re: /usr mapped to /

[Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@trick.fig.org>]

Hi!

>>>>> John Tobey writes:

 JT> Wouldn't this mess about /bin:/usr/bin and /lib:/usr/lib be
 JT> solved by a creative use of directory mapping (or whatever that
 JT> Hurd feature is called)?

Actually, no.  A symbolic link is the easiest way to achieve getting
things in /usr mapped to /.

The other issue is getting some things on / stored on one disk, and
other things stored on a different disk.  That's the shadowfs that
hasn't been implemented yet.

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