On 10/19/2010 11:15 AM, seth vidal wrote: > On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 16:08 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:03:50AM -0400, seth vidal wrote: >>> On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 15:56 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: >>> >>>>> /usr is frequently given different mount options (like noatime, for >>>>> example) or mounted readonly to prevent unnecessary writes to the >>>>> system. >>>> >>>> That doesn't require it to be a separate partition. >>> >>> Mounting the location meaningfully as a readonly does. If you're doing >>> it for security reasons. >> >> It doesn't. You can make it a read-only bind mount. > > If the files are still read-write at another location then something > iterating over disks/locations can still find it. > > That's what I meant by meaningfully. And it's entirely wrong, Seth. They're not at another location in this example. >>> So it seems like you need to explain why you think /usr should NOT be on >>> a separate partition. >> >> Because it adds additional complexity for no obvious gain. > > that's not plausible enough, imo. There is clear gain to enough users to > file a 'number of bugs'. Presumably because they don't know about the other ways to accomplish the same goal that aren't as painful to support? -- Peter -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel