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On Sat, 29 Dec 2012 12:27:03 Mark David Dumlao wrote: |
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> On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 2:53 AM, Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1ists@××××××××.uk> |
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wrote: |
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> > On Sat, 29 Dec 2012 01:16:34 +0800 |
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> > Mark David Dumlao <madumlao@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> whatever filesystem type |
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> >> it is. |
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> >>Following this, for any distro to correctly FHS, there needs to be a |
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> >>package manager switch to copy arbitrary packages (and dependent |
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> >>libraries) from /usr to /. As of yet not implemented. |
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> > Not at all, FUSE is a userspace flesystem meant to be used after single |
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> > user. |
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> > The spec says you have to be able to mount other filesystems not all |
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> > other filesystems. I'd like to see you mount an OpenBSD ffs partition. |
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> If "other filesystems" is not qualified (and it is not), normal |
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> English rules would have it mean "all other filesystems" which I take |
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> to mean "all other filesystems on the system". Can you justify a |
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> better interpretation? |
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The latest FHS dates from 2004, the same year as the *earliest* FUSE release I |
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can see on the FUSE web site. I'd say a good working hypothesis is that FHS |
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was simply written *before* any user-space file systems were more than an |
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experimental oddity. |
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> IF the system's /home directory is formatted as an OpenBSD partition, |
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> then yes, FHS demands that tools for mounting and recovering it be in |
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> /. |
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I'd certainly be happy "fixing" FHS to say that tools for mounting and |
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recovering "essential system partitions" be located in /, and that these |
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"essential system partitions" contain the tools for mounting and recovering |
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non-essential partitions. |
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If you are wondering where I stand, I currently boot with an initramfs, since |
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I have everything except /boot located on LVM devices. This includes / and a |
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seperate /usr, done mostly from habit after 15 years of habit, and working |
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where that was the corporate standard production practice. |
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As to system recovery, nowdays I ususlly do that by booting from a live CD/DVD |
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so I have access to all the tools when I need them. Which reminds me that I |
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need to update my rescue DVD to the latest version... |
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Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol |
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Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: |
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http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro |