On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:59 AM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Only wishful if people are unwilling to reconsider past actions and are unwilling
to consider the necessary changes. The cause appears lost in Fedora/RedHat only
because 1 or 2 "large voices" seem to consider this a "religious" fight and will
not consider doing anything to fix it. The attitude that the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
is outmoded and unnecessary and that modern hardware doesn't need to keep things
on separate spindles or take space considerations into account anymore belongs
to these "large voices" in this realm and therefore it cannot be fixed.
In actuality, only a few pieces need to be moved, but instead major surgery was applied
to move the whole of /usr into / instead of applying a band aid and move a few small
pieces around.
On 03/10/2011 10:02 AM, Robert Nichols wrote:
> I just noticed that ever since Fedora 11 the Installation Guide
> recommends against having a /usr partition separate from the root file
> system (though as recently as Fedora 12 the Example Usage still showed a
> separate /usr). ÂI've always used a separate /usr kept mounted read-only
> except when necessary for updates. ÂI was wondering just what sort of
> "boot process becomes more complex" issues I've been fortunate enough to
> avoid, and whether the reasons for that recommendation have become
> stronger in more recent releases.
Some of the reasons are outlined in
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken
Of course, the typical response is argue that, this shouldn't be the
case but that is at this point just wishful thinking.
Only wishful if people are unwilling to reconsider past actions and are unwilling
to consider the necessary changes. The cause appears lost in Fedora/RedHat only
because 1 or 2 "large voices" seem to consider this a "religious" fight and will
not consider doing anything to fix it. The attitude that the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
is outmoded and unnecessary and that modern hardware doesn't need to keep things
on separate spindles or take space considerations into account anymore belongs
to these "large voices" in this realm and therefore it cannot be fixed.
In actuality, only a few pieces need to be moved, but instead major surgery was applied
to move the whole of /usr into / instead of applying a band aid and move a few small
pieces around.
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