Am 15.02.2012 14:25, schrieb Miloslav Trmač: > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Martin Langhoff > <martin.langhoff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> You are wrong. The /usr move has a very clear impact in being able to >> snapshot your OS install partition. Add btrfs, yum hooks and the >> already-implemented "stateless" configuration and you have a really major >> feature: a fully upgrade/test/rollback setup for Fedora. > > I haven't seen this work and I don't think such snaphots can be relied > upon: /boot, /etc and /var are affected by installs as well > (especially in the cases where you would want to roll back); I don't > think anybody wants exactly the separation provided by the crude /usr > vs. rest that is provided by the /usr move. this is a additional reason why the /usrmove is completly useless because it suggests users they are save using any FS-snapshot have many fun after a big upgrade to revert the snapshot if you really have /usr on a seperated FS and your /etc and /var/lib/rpm will stay in the state after the upgrade and your FS is bombed back so for users having a default setup there is no difference because / as /etc and /usr is the same FS and for ones have seperated /usr it does not bring any benefit in real life with other words: the whole work which is done here is useless and low brained with constrcuted arguments not working in the real life and they were only coonstructed to push this feature because some developers are bored and fear this maybe happen also to users if they do not change permanently things which are working fine yes i know, now i get a reply about "politness" -> but face the truth!
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