On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 03:31:41PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Two clarifications: > > Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > Roger Leigh wrote: > > >> The question that needs answering is this: > >> > >> "what are the reasons, today, for a separate /usr?" > > > > No, I don't think an answer to that precise question today would be > > especially helpful. > > I'd like to apologize for this response. Hearing use cases is always > welcome, especially when they are given in the spirit of being helpful > rather than defensiveness.
No worries, sorry if my initial response was also rather aggressive. I would simply like to have some critical thought put into considering /why/ we have things the way they are, rather than having "historical reasons" as a rather unsatisfying answer, especially when those reasons may no longer be applicable. > > As far as I can tell, it is not especially > > unsensible to use separate partitions for /usr, /etc, /var, /boot, and > > /opt. > > It occured to me too late that it might sound like I am saying a /etc > partition separate from / can work. By "separate" I only meant > "distinct" (i.e., the /usr, /etc, /var, etc inodes all coming from > different mounts). > > I also think I misunderstood your message. What kind of unification > are you advocating? Fedora's setup, for example, allows /usr to be a > separate filesystem. I'm not currently really advocating for any specific unification now. While I think in the long run it would make sense to merge the content of / and /usr, I don't think wheezy is the right time for it. We might want to do some groundwork though, such as not having duplicate paths on / and /usr. There are two different questions here: - do we want do permit /usr as a separately-mountable filesystem? - do we want /usr at all? The udev concerns the first; though being able to mount /usr in the initramfs would ameliorate that. Long-term though, we might want to do away with it entirely and leave it as a compatibility symlink (for new installs). Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
