On Tue, Jun 12, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
On 12.06.2018 01:23, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
You might want to Google the term "stateless system" so you understand why many modern plumberland parts are moving towards a read-only /etc and put runtime data into /run.
but not on SUSE/openSUSE AFAICT :-)
Welcome back from your winter sleep ;) Of course we are moving to a strict seperation of the different kind of data and did a lot of changes for that in the last months already. And this will include /etc, too. But it is not as simple as some people think. The biggest problem with /etc and "stateless" is, that most people go the cheap route: copy everything from somewhere else if /etc is empty. This does not solve any problem, but will only create new ones. Instead, there should be a directory like /usr/etc, which contains the original config files, and /etc only contains the changes. This would really solve a lot of problems and would make it easier to find out what was changed on the system. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk, Distinguished Engineer, Senior Architect SLES & CaaSP SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org