NetworkworkManger and network based filesystem /usr

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 09:41 -0600, Jeff Law wrote:
> Horst H. von Brand wrote:
> > Jeff Law <law at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >   
> >> It  must die die die.  We're far better off making root filesystems
> >> sharable and readonly.
> >>     
> >
> > /etc at the very least is a /intensely/ personal issue for each machine...
> > We had local / and shared /usr and so on for ages under assorted Unices
> > here, and then for Linux. True, today disks are much cheaper; but old
> > habits are long in dying.
> >   
> union filesystems are the answer for those (very few) items in /etc 
> which are not sharable.
?!? I am confused by this answer.

/etc reflects a machine's local configuration, 
i.e. most in /etc/ is not shareable.

Or conversely: Those files in /etc/ which are shareable, likely should
not be in /etc.

Ralf