On 12/20/2012 07:02 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 6:21 AM, Richard Yao <r...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> No one has proposed moving everything to /usr. At the minimum, we would >> still have /etc and /var in /, as well as various mountpoints. If we do >> move those to /usr, then we effectively renamed / to /usr, which is >> pointless. The absurdity of mounting /usr over NFS instead of / is >> precisely why people are saying to just mount / (with /usr as being part >> of it). > > We're drifting here, but the concept is that machine-local stuff like > configuration stays out of /usr, and generic distro stuff stays in > /usr. > > A webserver for site1 vs site2 would be identical in /usr, but > different elsewhere. > > However, that whole approach makes less sense for a distro that prides > itself on you being able to make every installation unique. That > said, if you do want to make a whole bunch of Gentoo installs the same > then sticking everything important in /usr and network mounting it is > a good way to accomplish it. > > Rich >
You could accomplish a similar effect at the NFS server via a stacking filesystem, with the advantage being that all configuration data would be stored remotely.
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