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On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:21:15 -0400, Michael Mol wrote: |
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> > That, IMO, is the problem with the current filesystem layout. The |
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> > split between / and /usr is anything but well-defined. Putting things |
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> > in different boxes based on their function is good practice. Doing it |
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> > based on some arbitrary size limit on the box is not. |
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> Except that's not what people are doing. According to what I've read, |
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> that was the original rationale a couple decades ago, but that hasn't |
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> been the driving case for it for a long time, and pointing to it in a |
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> modern context is silly. |
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No, that's not the reason for doing it now. The reason for doing it now |
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has been applied to the previous solution (generally a bad idea) and is |
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aimed at making / a self-contained bootable system, which is a movable |
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target as hardware evolves. |
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> These days, you put things on different mount |
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> points because you want different underlying characteristics either in |
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> the filesystem or its underlying block device. |
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And for the vast majority of use cases, separating /bin and /usr/bin does |
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not make much sense. |
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> The gripe about the filesystem layout strikes me as a "it works, but |
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> it isn't clean or elegant" complaint. That means changing it is change |
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> for change's sake. And we're going to experience these growing pains |
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> tenfold as the consequences of that play out. |
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It's never been clean or elegant, but it was tolerated and worked around. |
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Now those that are trying to work around it have said they are no longer |
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going to do so, which is their choice. If the separate /usr had been |
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allowed to die when 20MB hard disks were around, this whole situation |
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would never have arisen. |
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The trouble with shit hitting the fan is that the longer you wait the |
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more there is to spread around :( |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Oxymoron: Clearly Misunderstood. |