Am 16.02.2012 13:22, schrieb Jim Meyering: > Reindl Harald wrote: >> Am 15.02.2012 13:43, schrieb Martin Langhoff: >>> On Feb 15, 2012 6:16 AM, "Reindl Harald" <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> <mailto:h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: >>>> there is no single reason for a feature like /usrmove which >>>> in fact nobody NEEDS at all and definitly not now to press >>>> it into the next release with pressure >>> >>> 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. >> >> only one out of a million installations have /usr seperated >> from / and the default is NOT do this - so no there is no >> impact on any normal setup > > Prior to F17, I've always put /usr on a partition separate from /. > > $ df -hT / /usr > Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda4 ext4 11G 7.3G 3.2G 70% / > /dev/sda6 ext4 10G 7.3G 2.3G 77% /usr > > I know I'm special ;-), but *that* special? I doubt it with what benefit? as said: it is and will be useless bomb the OS after a upgrade back to a filesystem snapshot of /usr since the RPM-DATABASE will NOT be restored, configurations in /etc will NOT be restored so can anybody give me one single benefit of /usrmove? sorry, regardless how often i read any article to this topic all this benefits are theoretical and will not work in the real life or not change anything for a user
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