Daniel Campbell (zlg) posted on Mon, 03 Aug 2015 16:38:59 -0700 as excerpted:
> So say I want to have an ownCloud instance that provides a single /usr > or /etc for any Gentoo system that wants it on my local network. Is that > a use case that would benefit from this new mounting? Well, both /etc/ and /usr/ would have the same problems as separate partitions that they do now, particularly /etc/, in that you quickly run into a chicken and egg problem trying to put /etc/ on non-root, because that's where all the configuration that tells the system how to mount other filesystems including the would-be /etc is placed. But it should work for /home , /svr, /var/www, and any user-optional mounts like /multimedia or whatever. It should also work for /var/log, tho that might require a bit more dependency futzing in other services, and potentially /var itself. And it /might/ work for /usr, tho that's tending toward more problematic as time goes on, since the leading distros don't usually support that except when mounted in initr*, these days. But the only practical way to do /etc as a separate mount is with it mounted in the initr*, and I /think/ that has been at least the norm, not the exception, since at least shortly after initr* was introduced, and possibly since /etc itself was introduced to Unix, pre-Linux. It has certainly been that way since I got into Linux at the turn of the century. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
