Re: Samba update moved my shares (again)
On 2005-04-23, Clive Menzies penned:
> On (23/04/05 07:24), Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
>
> Historical UNIX-like filesystem hierarchies contained both static
> and variable files under both /usr and /etc. In order to realize the
> advantages mentioned above, the /var hierarchy was created and all
> variable files were transferred from /usr to /var. Consequently /usr
> can now be mounted read-only (if it is a separate filesystem).
> Variable files have been transferred from /etc to /var over a longer
> period as technology has permitted.
Ah, yes.
It seems to me I've seen more than a few bug reports in the last few
years relating to packages behaving poorly when /usr is read-only.
You're supposed to be able to mount /usr read-only, but it seems like
if you do so, you might as well expect to be filing some bug reports
of your own.
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