On 04/12/2011 03:38 AM, Gregory Woodbury wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:59 AM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid@xxxxxxxxx > <mailto:metherid@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > On 03/10/2011 <tel:03%2F10%2F2011> 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). I've always used a separate /usr kept mounted > read-only > > except when necessary for updates. I 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. I generally agree. My reasons for keeping separate /, /var, and /usr has been / is to provide some degree of protection from corruption to the file system. If all of these were under /, then a corruption in / would make the other two also inaccessible. So They indeed ought to be kept separate for that reason, to minimize loss. Cheersm JD -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
