Re: sharing /usr and /usr/share
hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
The FHS says that /usr is sharable, read-only data. And that /usr/share
is sharable even across architectures.
I suppose you mean Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.
Now suppose I have a network of Debian machines, whose packages are
all maintained and regularly upgraded with aptitude. Presumably,
each machine would have a different set of packages. How would aptitude
react if I were to NFS-mount /usr (or just /usr/share) so as to have
only one copy around, as intended by the FHS?
This is an interesting question. I don't think it would work,
unless all your machines were the same architecture for /usr.
For /usr/share it might.
OTOH, what if machine A mounts /usr and machine B mounts /usr,
but they have *locally* mounted incompatible versions of software.
Doesn't sound likely to work.
Mike
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