On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 07:01:42AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:00:49AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > No. It is no configuration file if it is not static. > The FHS defines "static" as: > "Static" files include binaries, libraries, documentation files and > other files that do not change without system administrator > intervention. "Variable" files are files that are not static. > > The system administrator runs ovs-vsctl to change > /etc/openvswitch/conf.db.
You forget all virtualization stuff. There no admin intervention is used. > > How does modifying this file with an editor work? > It's somewhat challenging, because you have to calculate a sha1sum with > the sha1sum program, and the format isn't really intended for direct > human editing. But, as I said before (you dropped the quote), I do not > see anything in 10.7 that says that the administrator must be able to > edit a configuration file with a text editor. So it is not meant to be modified by a user. > > How does it survive read-only /etc? > If you have read-only /etc, then you can't modify your configuration, in > the same way you can't modify other parts of your configuration. conf.db is open read-write by ovsdb-server. Bastian -- Deflector shields just came on, Captain. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
