Re: apt-get and /usr remount (was Re: ReiserFS on blank hard drive)
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 01:24:12AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 02:01:15AM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote:
> > On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 04:39:49AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > > for example when you upgrade libc every bash process must be killed
> > > before remounting of /usr is possible since it mmaps some locale file
> > > (IME anyway).
> >
> > (Almost) everything mmap()s /lib/libc.so.6. That's probably more important
>
> this is true, but not relevant to remounting /usr since /lib/libc is
> not in /usr ;-)
Damn, what was I smoking when I wrote that? I wonder if there's any
more... (j/k, smoking sucks :) There are a lot of libs in /usr, so you'd
have to restart X (whole whack of stuff in /usr/X11R6/lib), sshd (libcrypto
in /usr/lib), log out of all ssh sessions (libcrypto again), and certainly
other things. All that stuff wouldn't get upgraded all at once, so it's not
like with libc. Ah well, I should get more sleep...
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