On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 18:04, Tom Gundersen <teg@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 12:44 AM, Myra Nelson <myra.nelson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> and IIRC its not perfect supported on any distro for a variety of reasons. >>> >>> I run several SuSE machines with /usr on a separate partition. Works >>> fine. And right now, Arch should also work. >> >> It is historical and the default disk set up for both FreeBSD and OpenBSD. >> OpenBSD lists security, stability, and filesystem integrity as some of the >> reasons for setting the system up that way. Don't know if it's correct or not >> but that's the reason I set my system up the way I do. > > Pushed fix to testing. > > We will keep trying to support separate /usr (certainly in > initscripts). As far as I'm aware both udev and systemd themselves > support separate /usr. > > However, at least in the case of udev, third party packages might > install udev rules that call binaries in /usr. This will probably > happen before /usr is mounted. > > On my system, the packages that install udev rules which will not work > with a separate /usr are: v4l-utils, alsa-utils and usbmuxd. > > There might be other ways things break except for through udev rules, > but I'm not aware of any. > > Cheers, > > Tom > Tom: My point wasn't to push any policy change. I'll follow what Arch wants to do. My last post was simply an explanation of why /usr was a separate partition historically, nothing more. Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!
