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From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Let's redesign the entire filesystem!
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:13:39
Message-Id: 20120314201235.GA32344@waltdnes.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Let's redesign the entire filesystem! by Greg KH
1 On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 08:04:31AM -0700, Greg KH wrote
2 > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 10:51:44AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
3 > > 120314 Greg KH wrote:
4 > > > if you have /usr on a different filesystem today, with no initrd,
5 > > > your machine could be broken and you don't even know it.
6 > >
7 > > Whatever do you mean ? -- if it were truly broken,
8 > > it wouldn't perform in some important & obvious respect.
9 >
10 > Not always, no, it isn't obvious that something didn't start up
11 > correctly, or that it didn't fully load properly. Some programs later
12 > on recover and handle things better.
13
14 Throwing that one right back at you, if you have /usr on the same file
15 system, plus you boot with systemd, your machine could be broken and you
16 don't even know it.
17
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19 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>