Package: bindfs Version: 1.14.7-1 Followup-For: Bug #951208 On 18/02/2020 14:07, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > How common of a use case is to use bindfs with a non-empty mount point? I > never mounted filesystems like that myself, so > I don't know if it's a minor nuisance with an easy workaround, or a > significant limitation making some use case > unachievable.
I use bindfs to redirect heavy I/O away from my SSD from the Firefox cache, when visiting some specific sites, because it does not support XDG_CACHE_HOME: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259356 On 21/02/2020 10:02, Willem Mulder wrote: > At our association we have shared home directories (over NFS), but on > one particular server, our remote desktop server, we have the XDG > config, data and cache directories on separate HDDs. We're using bindfs > to mount them onto their default locations, since not all software uses > the XDG environment variables. People can also run software on other > servers, so we do need (the ability) to mount over nonempty directories. If that can be helpful, the arch wiki has a comprehensive list of apps that do not follow the XDG spec, or follow it in part: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XDG_Base_Directory
