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On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 1:31 AM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info> wrote: |
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> On Mar 13, 2012 2:19 PM, "Alan McKinnon" <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:54:58 +0700 |
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>> Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info> wrote: |
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>> > > The idea of trying to launch udevd and initialize devices without |
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>> > > the software, installed in /usr, which is required by those devices |
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>> > > is a configuration that causes problems in many real-world, |
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>> > > practical situations. |
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>> > > The requirement of having /usr on the same partition as / is also a |
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>> > > configuration that causes problems in many real-world, practical |
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>> > > situations. |
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>> > I quite often read about this, and after some thinking, I have to |
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>> > ask: why? |
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>> I've also thought about this and I also want to ask why? |
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>> I stopped using a separate /usr on my workstations a long time ago when |
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>> I realized it was pointless. The days of 5M hard disks when the entire |
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>> OS didn't fit on one are long gone. The days of my software going tits |
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>> up at the drop of a hat requiring a minimal repair environment to fix |
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>> it at boot are also long gone (my desk is littered with LiveCDs and |
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>> bootable flash drives). |
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>> So I can't find a single good reason why /usr *must* be separate and my |
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>> workstations are the only machines that will ever have hotplug booting |
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>> issues. |
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>> I'm even considering changing the install standards for the company |
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>> servers to dispense with separate /usr, as long as there are safeguards |
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>> against clowns who don't read INSTALL files and happily |
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>> accept /usr/local/<package>/var as a storage area. |
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> I just did some more thinking, and *maybe* the reason is to prevent |
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> something under /usr (src and share comes to mind) from growing too big and |
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> messes up the root filesystem. |
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> Place the offenders on a separate partition, then mount them under /usr, and |
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> all should be well... |
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The always used example is to have /usr shared as a read only NFS |
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partition among several workstations. In corporate environments it is |
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certainly used this way (or at least it was when I worked, and the way |
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I used it in my office seven or eight years ago). |
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Of course, for a normal desktop user, a separate /usr is basically useless. |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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