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On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 07:27 +1300, Kent Fredric wrote: |
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> 2012/1/5 Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> |
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> > >>>>> On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > There's really nothing pointless or blurry about this separation. |
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> > The FHS has a nice definition: "The contents of the root filesystem |
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> > must be adequate to boot, restore, recover, and/or repair the system." |
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> > |
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> Given that these tools are being moved to /usr and/or duplicated to in |
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> initrd , what is the point of a root filesystem anyway now? Just to |
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> mount other things on? Just to store /etc ? |
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> Or will /etc move to /usr too? |
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> /usr/etc somewhat horrifies me. |
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No no no, the idea is that once all binaries are in /usr, you can easily |
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share /usr between different systems and do updates in a sane way.. You |
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can also mount /usr read-only, but still have / be read-write. |
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Olivier Crête |
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