Re: Samba update moved my shares (again)
On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 01:51:47PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
> >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.
> >
>
> I have yet to experience this. Everytime I set up a server I always
> split out the filesystems and make /usr read-only. The only issue
> that I have encountered is that I have configured apt to remount rw
> before starting an upgrade and then remount ro afterwards.
Is /usr/local deprecated?
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Chris.
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