On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 12:58 -0500, Alan Cox wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 12:13:51PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > Its defined in the LSB, its a long tradition and its very useful. > > > > Separate /usr is different from local / and network /usr. One is fairly > > useful, one is becoming more and more pointless over time. > > Actually I would say the reverse. The imaginative are finding it very > very useful because you can fit the rest of the system on flash and the /usr > partition over the network either by NFS or GFS2. > > That is *very* useful as it gives you local storage, local CPU and no rotating > noise generators. We already end up having to support a lot of what's needed to do things like this in the initramfs for / on iSCSI or NFS. And then you just boot off the flash and get all of the advantages but none of the annoyances that dealing with a /usr-not-on-/ entails Jeremy -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
