On Sat, 11 Jul 2020 15:30:10 -0500, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> wrote:
Thank you for pointing to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard document. Still, /usr is within the Version root, and its mounting mode must be changed to RDWR to allow creating subdirectories under /usr/local. Can this be done on the fly, without bouncing the system? >On Sat, 11 Jul 2020 12:51:04 -0500, Israel Wagshal wrote: >> >>I'm installing a software that has to have its own zFS aggregate mounted and >>available. >> >>Looking into the USS filesystem I can see many IBM products' zFS aggregates >>mounted off /usr/lpp. >>I can see no foreign aggregate mounted off /usr/lpp. >> >I believe LPP abbreviated Licensed Program Products. > >The convention elsewhere seems to be /usr/local: > https://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRLOCALLOCALHIERARCHY > >>However, /usr/lpp is in IBM's Version root which is mounted R/O. >> >>Is it proper to change Version root's mount mode temporarily to R/W and mkdir >>another mountpoint off /usr/lpp for the product I'm installing, or should >>this be avoided and made elsewhere? >>Is there a general recommendation where to mount aggregates for non-IBM >>products? >>The vendor says nothing about this. >> >>Can mount mode of the Version root be changed on the fly by some command or >>will this require bouncing the system? > >-- gil > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
