On 04/12/2011 03:04 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 07:07 -0700, JD wrote: >> 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 > Separating these file system trees is not more efficient unless the > partitions are on separate hard drives. > > Sorry, I said nothing about efficiency. I merely separate these dirs onto separate partitions to prevent the corruption of one of them to affect the accessibility to the others. -- 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
