> -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Richard Troth > Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 1:41 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: /usr/local -or- /local > <snip> > > John -- > > One FS hiding another is ... for example ... if /usr/local were a > directory instead of a sym-link and you then mount /usr afterward, the > /usr you mount would hide the /usr/local you had previously mounted. > Rare, yes, but possible. In any case, cascaded mount points is > something I was hoping to (continue to) avoid. >
So /usr/local exists in the root. Easy to fix. If /usr/local does not exist as a directory in the / filesystem, then you can't mount on it. That forces you to mount /usr first, then mount /usr/local. Isn't that true? So if you create a anything in the /usr directory on the / filesystem other than a directory, then a mount to /usr/local when /usr is not mounted should fail, shouldn't it? But the use of the symlink is OK by me. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell [email protected] * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
