Serge <sergemdev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Lot of apps will break if you move /proc or /dev > > Sure. And many apps would break if you move /bin to /usr/bin. But still, > you did that? ;) The contents of /dev vary depending on what hardware the computer has available - which may change in real time - so it cannot be shared, so why move it? You would _have_ to have symlinks at /dev and /proc - so moving these gains you nothing. The dirents would still be present on the rootfs - so you'd've made things less efficient by virtue of mounting these elsewhere and putting symlinks in. Don't forget also that symlinks are a limited resource in any particular pathwalk (though I suspect that wouldn't actually be a problem). > ... But an "eyecandy" kernel module can hide > those symlinks, so user would see a nice simple layout right now, and not > in 10 years. Ugh. Don't go there. Really don't. That's for userspace to deal with - just like hiding files whose name begins with a ".". > While this one (besides creating even more "Simpler and cleaner file > system layout") has a goal: making explicit root filesystem optional > (i.e. so small and simple that it could be replaced with initramfs). > Which gives lots of new features, like simple diskless NFS stations, > multiple distros on same partition, easier lightweight containers... Which does not prevent you from leaving /dev and /proc where they are. Actually, the UsrMove has mucked up at least one way of doing things: we have/had RHEL customer(s) who kept /usr on AFS and were able to boot just using the stuff in /bin and /sbin. This is no longer a viable option with Fedora, and presumably RHEL-7. David -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
