FS#17136 - Replace /etc as "suggested" separate mount point

Attached to Project: Release Engineering
Opened by Andres P (manolo) - Saturday, 14 November 2009, 20:18 GMT
Last edited by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be) - Friday, 05 March 2010, 18:50 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category AIF
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2009.08
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

When you make filesystems/assign mount points in the AIF, it shows:

/
/boot
/tmp
/etc
/home
c - custom

It might list more and in different order, w/e. But the issue is /etc.

Except for unionfs-type deals, a separate etc won't work. And the default init-scripts/setup do not support such a scheme without extensive modification. So this option should be replaced by /var or removed.
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Closed by  Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be)
Friday, 05 March 2010, 18:50 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be) - Sunday, 29 November 2009, 09:39 GMT
what do you mean "a separate etc won't work" ?
can you give some examples of the default init-scripts/setup thot do not support a separate /etc ?
Comment by C Denton (denton) - Saturday, 05 December 2009, 20:05 GMT
Among others, rc.sysinit is in /etc.

He means that it needs to be in the root file system, else the system won't boot.
Comment by Dale Blount (dale) - Monday, 28 December 2009, 20:49 GMT
Arch expects /etc to be on the same partition as /, as does any other linux I've ever used.


+1 for adding /var as I use that all the time.
Comment by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be) - Friday, 05 March 2010, 18:50 GMT
thanks. good points.
removed /etc, added /var
http://projects.archlinux.org/aif.git/commit/?h=experimental&id=ec4ea774231668bf5a78afb8b6ec2cc94b75e1c6

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