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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/6] Make 'split-usr' USE flag global and use it in gen_usr_ldscript
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 14:51:54
Message-Id: 7b19105d-089f-c1eb-bde8-f4b8d88742b0@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/6] Make 'split-usr' USE flag global and use it in gen_usr_ldscript by Jaco Kroon
1 On 7/15/19 10:45 AM, Jaco Kroon wrote:
2 > I have no idea who wrote this:
3 >
4 > "The historical justification for a /bin, /sbin and /lib separate from
5 > /usr no longer applies today." but I strongly disagree.
6
7 All of that stuff is written from the perspective of "I feel like doing
8 it this way in systemd, so I need to post-hoc justify making everyone
9 else go along with it."
10
11
12 > Again, if /usr goes belly up (which with recent ext4/io bug(s) we've had
13 > probably about 10 systems already that needed repairing, and at least 5
14 > more that's pending), this fault would require me to head out to site to
15 > go and repair where currently due to fsck et al living on / and not on
16 > /usr I could recover without issues.
17 >
18 > We've been unable to track an exact issue, but all of the affected
19 > systems was running 4.14.X kernels, we've not seen the same corruption
20 > from 5.0.2 onwards.  So we never filed a bug and simply upgraded kernels.
21
22 Likely https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201685

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