On Fri, 2016-01-01 at 20:55 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 7:17 PM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > > > Moving /bin, /sbin, /lib to /usr has some advantages like being able to > > mount /usr read-only while keeping /etc read-write. Or sharing /usr > > between multiple containers and having them only use a different / with > > different /etc and /var. > > One can mount / read-only while keeping /etc read-write. > > I would guess one can have / shared by containers but /etc and /var different.
So far as I know, /etc as a separate filesystem isn't supported by any init system or by initramfs-tools. (Roger Leigh did some work on it but it was not completed and it needed extra kernel parameters.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings All the simple programs have been written, and all the good names taken.
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