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On 03/14/12 18:49, Greg KH wrote: |
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> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 06:39:05PM -0400, Richard Yao wrote: |
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>> With that said, I have a few questions: |
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>> 1. Why does no one mention the enterprise use case at all? |
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> It has been pointed out before, why constantly repeat ourselves. |
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Simple. No one has documented it. A webpage that makes a few vague |
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references to "enterprise use" does not count as documentation. |
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I happened to figure it out when trying to rationalize why anyone would |
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want this, but this is hardly obvious to those that imagine a computer |
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as a self-sufficient single disk system. |
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>> 2. Why not make rootfs a NFS mount with a unionfs at the SAN/NAS device? |
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> unionfs is still a "work in progress", some systems can't do that yet. |
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That sounds like something that needs to be fixed. |
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>> 3. Why not let the users choose where these directories go and support |
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>> both locations? |
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> Because a plethera of options is a sure way to make sure that half of |
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> them don't work over the long run. |
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> We aren't Debian here people, we don't support "everything" :) |
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Gentoo provides far more options than Debian does, so this seems |
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somewhat contradictory to me. |
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> If you want to support both, great, feel free to step up and do the |
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> work. |
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Fair enough, however, I should remind you that not much will happen |
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without a decision from the Gentoo Council. I am willing to accept |
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whatever decision they make, but I think that exposing this decision to |
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users is something that is within our ability to do. |
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Portage provides use with the ability to do abstractions that other |
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distributions cannot do, such as permitting people to merge |
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/usr{bin,lib{32,64,},sbin} into /. |