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Message-ID: <20070929203312.GX8181@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:33:12 +0100
From: Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
To: "Schmidt, Kenneth P" <kenneth.schmidt@....gov>
Cc: Jan Dittmer <jdi@....org>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: FW: [patch 01/02] vfs: variant symlinks
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 12:40:23PM -0700, Schmidt, Kenneth P wrote:
> The best example of how this can be useful is to allow a heterogeneous
> environment which uses a common filesystem. For example, both x86_64 and
> power systems could mount a root nfs share and execute with a common set of
> configurations and data, but the binary directories (bin and lib) could
> point to architecture specific directories.
mount --bind /usr/$(ARCH)/bin /usr/bin
mount --bind /usr/$(ARCH)/lib /usr/lib
or corresponding ones in /etc/fstab. BFD...
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