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* Kacper Kowalik schrieb am 01.08.11 um 13:32 Uhr: |
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> I'm responding to this particular mail cause it's last in queue and |
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> because it replicates things already mentioned before. |
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> I am a zeleous follower of having seperate /usr partition, thus seeing |
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> moot arguments that goes "in favour" of "my" case is pretty annoying. |
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> > * For example if a filesystem fills 100%. Imagine your /usr is 100% |
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> > full by accident. |
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> Thats bs, cause / can fill out even when you have /usr seperate. Even |
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> faster cause usually you've got very small / like <<1Gb. You miss one |
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> thing that accidentally writes to / and you're as much toasted. |
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The point is that /usr/* has much more load and changes than / |
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alone. ANd a full /usr is much more common than a full / if it is |
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seperated. |
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> > * IMO its a good idea to seperate mostly static filesystems from |
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> > those with many writes |
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> How mering / and /usr increase that? What prevents you having separate |
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> partition for heavy write areas inside /usr ? |
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Nothing prevents me. But just having /usr seperat is much easier to |
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maintain. |
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And well, the FHS clearly allows a sepearte /usr. Everything that is |
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required to boot belongs to / until other filesystems get mounted. |
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> > * Some people want a read-only /usr |
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> Yes, that's only reasonable argument here. |
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> > * /usr/portage can get very huge and is often written to. With |
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> > / and /usr being on the same FS you really want to have |
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> > /usr/portage on a seperate FS then |
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> Even with separate /usr it's good to have separate partition for |
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> /usr/portage. You can have partition with small blocks and large no. of |
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> inodes this way. How does that prevents merging / and /usr ? |
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I agree with you here. My point was that with a seperate /usr you |
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can go well without seperate /usr/portage where you cannot without. |
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-Marc |
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PS,OT: /usr/portage always seemed special to me. |
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Would'nt /var/lib/portage be a better place for it? |
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