On Fri, 17.04.09 07:52, Chris Adams (cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > Once upon a time, Lennart Poettering <mzerqung@xxxxxxxxxxx> said: > > In the past more and more stuff has been moved from /usr to /. > > Only things needed for boot have been moved to /. > > > And for the folks who think /usr is awesome because it allows mounting > > /usr ro while mounting / rw: it's not. > > You're wrong. On my servers, I make a small / and bigger /usr (mounted > ro). The small / has a big advantage: less likely to fail. > > Real-world example: I recently had a drive failure (actually multiple > drive failure in a RAID), and /usr was corrupted beyond repair. I was > still able to boot in "emergency" mode, mounting only /, and restore > /usr from tape. That sounds like a pretty arbitrary reason. I mean, if that's how you want to create fail-safety then why don't you advocate splitting up the whole mess even further? Why just three levels of hierarchies, why not 15? Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
