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On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:36:23 +0100 |
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Graham Murray <graham@×××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> writes: |
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> > What's the benefit of having /usr on a separate partition anyway? |
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> > The only somewhat reasonable explanation that I've heard is so that |
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> > it can be mounted readonly. |
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> One benefit, especially in a large server 'farm' is that several |
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> servers can share the same /usr by NFS mounting, read-only, the same |
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> partition on all of the servers. This both ensures that all the |
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> servers are kept in-step and greatly simplifies the upgrade process. |
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Unless upgrade involves files being outside of /usr. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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