Why not the other way round?
Why not the other way round?
Posted Jan 12, 2016 9:09 UTC (Tue) by Yenya (subscriber, #52846)In reply to: Why not the other way round? by Karellen
Parent article: Preparing for a merged /usr in Debian
You forgot to create /lib, /sbin, and /bin symlinks in your container root fs :-) And you still have to populate /var and /etc with something, so the net difference between read-only / with bind-mounted /etc, /var (and maybe /home) and read-write / with bind-mounted /usr and several symlinks in / is quite negligible. And read-only / would allow sharing other things like /opt from the main system.
Posted Jan 13, 2016 0:23 UTC (Wed)
by raven667 (subscriber, #5198)
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Why not the other way round?
I think this is not as much of a problem as you think it is, a lot of work has already happened to make booting with an empty / that gets populated on first startup functional.