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From: Pjotr Prins <pjotr2015@thebird.nl>
Subject: bug#21209: /gnu/store should be able to be a symlink, but it can't
Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2015 11:31:19 +0200
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To: Claes Wallin <gnu@clacke.user.lysator.liu.se>
Cc: 21209@debbugs.gnu.org, Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org>

it is by design that you can't symlink.

On Sat, Aug 08, 2015 at 06:51:17AM +0200, Claes Wallin wrote:
>    Not commenting on the underlying problem, but on your workaround.
> 
>    On 07-Aug-2015 11:22 pm, "Kragen Javier Sitaker" <[1]kragen@canonical.org>
>    wrote:
>    >
>    > Apparently I can’t make /gnu/store a symlink:
> 
>    [ . . . ]
> 
>    > I’m working around that by directly mounting the /gnustore partition
>    > under /gnu/store now.
> 
>    [ . . . ]
> 
>    >     /tb/gnustore.ext4 /gnu/store     ext4    loop            2       3
> 
>    You don't need to make a new file system and a loop mount. You could just
>    make a bind mount.
> 
> References
> 
>    Visible links
>    1. mailto:kragen@canonical.org

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