On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 12:55 AM, Sebastian Pipping <sp...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On 01/16/10 23:46, Benedikt Böhm wrote: >> One thing all you /usr naggers forget is, that /var cannot be shared >> read-only via nfs (or bind mounts in case of virtual servers). > > Why is that? Please tell more.
Maybe you should actually read the FHS. You can of course share specific subdirectories of /var read-only and still be compliant, but /usr is specifically designed to be completely shareable read-only.
