Re: Question about storage for virtualisation

[Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Gordon Messmer <yinyang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 06/29/2012 11:17 AM, Nate Duehr wrote:
>> Any good references as to WHY?! they want to break this decades old convention?
>
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge
>
> All of the reasons you'd put /usr on a separate partition from / were
> resolved decades ago.  There's no reason to do that, and a long list of
> reasons not to.

Umm, yeah... Nobody would ever want to boot from small alternate media
devices in these days of 3TB drives....   I suppose most of what /bin
was supposed to hold and the reasons for putting it there have been
usurped by the initrd that is normally required to boot linux, though.

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   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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