Introducing /run (a Filesystem Hierarchy Standard perspective).

Posted Mar 31, 2011 6:26 UTC (Thu) by rodgerd (guest, #58896)
In reply to: Introducing /run (a Filesystem Hierarchy Standard perspective). by rusty
Parent article: Introducing /run

Running ro-/usr and sharing it across systems has a new lease of life in a world of mass-virtualised environments.

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Introducing /run (a Filesystem Hierarchy Standard perspective).

Posted Mar 31, 2011 8:29 UTC (Thu) by rleigh (guest, #14622) [Link]

Sharing /usr does not make sense when /usr is just one TLD out of several under the control of the package manager. Package installation and upgrading are going to be "interesting". It's also sharing the wrong thing; modern distributions allow / to be shared as easily as /usr, so you can just share the entire lot. If you so desire, you can use a unionfs/aufs overlay to make the read-only image writable.

Regards,
Roger