On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 19:44:13 +0800 Mark David Dumlao <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074114.html > > > > Well fair enough. This stuff is becoming more myth than fact as less > > and less people are around to remember how it really went. There may > > even have been to-ing and fro-ing moving bits around till Ken and > > Dennis settled on the eventual outcome in that post. > > > > Either way, we still agree. A separate /usr is, *for the most > > part*, a tradition applied without much understanding of the reason > > (most traditions are exactly like this). Most people do not > > actually need it. > > The sweet irony here is that Poettering - the cause for all this mess > - likely understood the logistics and rationale of the / and /usr > split better than most of his detractors - I'm pretty sure I landed on > that link by starting from one of his systemd tutorial pages, though I > can't exactly remember which one. Thankfully, I've never had to > maintain systems whose disks were small and low performing enough that > it actually mattered to separate / from /usr. Yes indeed :-) The other sweet irony is that Lennart is quite often correct in what he sets out to solve. He is the human equivalent of "disruptive technology", but also has this knack of rubbing people up the wrong way (or at least creating a circumstance where people believe he has rubbed them up the wrong way). I have some measure of empathy for the man as I tend to do similar things in my own sphere -- Alan McKinnon [email protected]
