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W dniu 30.07.2011 15:55, Samuli Suominen pisze: |
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> On 07/30/2011 01:46 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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>> On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 10:27:27 +0300 |
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>> Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> Since running separate /usr without mounting it from initramfs on top |
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>>> of / before init is and has been broken with udev for a long time |
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>>> now[1][2][3] |
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>>> |
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>>> [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364235 |
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>>> [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove#Move_all_to_.2Fusr |
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>>> [3] |
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>>> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken |
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>>> |
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>>> Can we warn users about not doing the separate /usr mistake in the |
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>>> handbook? |
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>> |
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>> It's important to consider the timeline here. Separate /usr was |
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>> accidentally broken by a sudden increase in dependencies from base |
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>> system packages to desktopy things. It was only later that certain |
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>> people decided that "oh, separate /usr is a bad idea anyway", and they |
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>> did so because they couldn't figure out how to fix the mess they'd |
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>> caused. This is very much a case of carelessly letting the horse escape |
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>> and then trying to convince everyone that no-one needs a horse anyway... |
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>> |
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> |
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> Someone mentioned NFS mount on /usr. Do we have other reasons? How |
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> many users that might be? |
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That covers headless/diskless clusters and I suspect many people still |
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do that. |
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Cheers, |
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Kacper |
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