From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RiVyH-0007O9-SE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:53:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B2A9621C143; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 18:53:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B402121C1C6 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 18:51:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.117] (modemcable154.55-37-24.static.videotron.ca [24.37.55.154]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: tester) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AA0111B4083 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 18:51:29 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <1325703086.11298.3.camel@TesterTop4> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr From: Olivier =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Cr=EAte?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:51:26 -0500 In-Reply-To: References: <1325616625.7238.23.camel@TesterBox.tester.ca> <20120103190255.GA13817@linux1> <20120103191206.GP780@gentoo.org> <20120103200120.GB13936@linux1> <20120103212215.GU780@gentoo.org> <20120103230918.GA7247@linux1> <4F03A1AA.6070205@gentoo.org> <20120104091743.0e1cd91a@pomiocik.lan> <4F0440B3.4090500@gentoo.org> <20120104163734.07439f2b@pomiocik.lan> <20120104163315.GV780@gentoo.org> <20120104174742.11d7002d@pomiocik.lan> <20228.34930.732592.657243@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Organization: Gentoo Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-+Mzunb/AOKSgSGXfsNIY" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.2 (3.2.2-1.fc16) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Archives-Salt: 9d6a86ed-07d5-4cd6-a07b-841068e41115 X-Archives-Hash: 5fbd09cbb34d78bf969ba46578f58ad3 --=-+Mzunb/AOKSgSGXfsNIY Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 07:27 +1300, Kent Fredric wrote: > 2012/1/5 Ulrich Mueller > > > > >>>>> On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny wrote: > >> > > There's really nothing pointless or blurry about this separation. > > The FHS has a nice definition: "The contents of the root filesystem > > must be adequate to boot, restore, recover, and/or repair the system." > > >=20 > Given that these tools are being moved to /usr and/or duplicated to in > initrd , what is the point of a root filesystem anyway now? Just to > mount other things on? Just to store /etc ? >=20 > Or will /etc move to /usr too? >=20 > /usr/etc somewhat horrifies me. No no no, the idea is that once all binaries are in /usr, you can easily share /usr between different systems and do updates in a sane way.. You can also mount /usr read-only, but still have / be read-write. --=20 Olivier Cr=C3=AAte tester@gentoo.org Gentoo Developer --=-+Mzunb/AOKSgSGXfsNIY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk8En64ACgkQHTiOWk7Zorv2zACdEWvnkcMU4FmWqAYV9t2tKwWK +gkAn0WrGOTnRDkQwdFLk8m/W4+zgJJ2 =h46Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-+Mzunb/AOKSgSGXfsNIY--