[Olaf Ronneberger] > The definitions, which part of the filesystem must be mounted > read/write, read only, local or via network, shared for different > operating systems or os-specific, etc. are written down in the > Filesystem Hierarchy Standard > > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html > > e.g., You must not mount /etc via NFS, and it must be an individual > directory for each computer, because of the configuration files for the > hardware.
If this 'must' was in effect, no knoppix CD would work. So it is possible to set up machines with write protected /etc/. :) > So if you want to share a directory like /usr/ via multiple machines > with slightly different hardware, you have to do all configurations > within /etc/ by hand on each computer instead of letting the package > manager do this work. I'm sure there are other options except editing /etc/ by hand.
