Re: Did anyone look at synthetic.conf before moving things to /opt?

On 11/17/20 10:58 PM, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:
 > I was just told about man (5) synthetic.conf today and I'm wondering why
 > we're not using it.
 >

We're not using it because probably no one heard of it until now.

Just tested it, and it can create /sw on 10.15, but:
1) the created directory is still read only. The manpage says 
synthetic.conf is meant for creating mount points (such as in enterprise 
use), so we still can't write directly to /sw created this way. If we 
have it make a symbolic link to a writeable location, then we're just 
adding an extra layer.

2) System needs a reboot to create (or delete) the requested paths in /

Hanspeter

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