Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Matthew Thode <prometheanfire@g.o> (prometheanfire)
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: mgorny@g.o, ulm@g.o, rdalek1967@×××××.com
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:06:10
Message-Id: 20120111110417.2c8f1053@khorne.mthode.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr by "Michał Górny"
1 On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:03:50 +0100
2 Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:44:31 +0100
5 > Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
6 >
7 > > >>>>> On Wed, 11 Jan 2012, Michał Górny wrote:
8 > >
9 > > >> I think it is more like people do that when they have a good
10 > > >> reason to do so. I plan to put mine on /usr when I get the
11 > > >> chance and know that this init crap isn't going to break my
12 > > >> rig. It's not being "awesome" either.
13 > >
14 > > > Remind me of a single good reason. Last time I heard those were
15 > > > mostly hacks and laziness.
16 > >
17 > > /usr can be mounted readonly, while / and /var cannot?
18 >
19 > What is the point of mounting the less important part of the system
20 > read-only while the more important one is writable?
21 >
22 > Also, it should be possible to mount rootfs read-only with
23 > separate /var. Of course, that would require the software to be
24 > actually FHS-compliant and not put runtime-written files in /etc.
25 >
26
27 security?
28
29 --
30 Matthew Thode (prometheanfire)

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