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 1RFWaG-0002Ra-HJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:41:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 357CB21C17C; Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:41:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6430521C178 for ; Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:40:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pomiocik.lan (178-37-170-64.adsl.inetia.pl [178.37.170.64]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mgorny) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D5DB71B4002; Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:40:40 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 21:40:32 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?TWljaGHFgiBHw7Nybnk=?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Cc: graham@gmurray.org.uk Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] supporting /usr on separate partition Message-ID: <20111016214032.0a878afd@pomiocik.lan> In-Reply-To: <877h44u3t4.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> References: <20111012044023.GA8203@waltdnes.org> <1318518871.3885.3.camel@TesterBox.tester.ca> <20111013180547.4973defa@googlemail.com> <4416149.yvcg9DIAd9@pc> <4E994AEF.5030002@mailstation.de> <4E9A0414.7030603@gentoo.org> <4E9AD392.30503@gentoo.org> <4E9B261B.1010304@gentoo.org> <877h44u3t4.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> Organization: Gentoo X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10 (GTK+ 2.24.6; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA256; boundary="Sig_/RnxLAFrxjZ5iSj.qXwtMObd"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 965973e98edd7489bbf04e1072a9629d --Sig_/RnxLAFrxjZ5iSj.qXwtMObd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:36:23 +0100 Graham Murray wrote: > Zac Medico writes: >=20 > > What's the benefit of having /usr on a separate partition anyway? > > The only somewhat reasonable explanation that I've heard is so that > > it can be mounted readonly.=20 >=20 > One benefit, especially in a large server 'farm' is that several > servers can share the same /usr by NFS mounting, read-only, the same > partition on all of the servers. This both ensures that all the > servers are kept in-step and greatly simplifies the upgrade process. Unless upgrade involves files being outside of /usr. --=20 Best regards, Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny --Sig_/RnxLAFrxjZ5iSj.qXwtMObd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iJwEAQEIAAYFAk6bMzAACgkQfXuS5UK5QB1OjQP9FbGQH4lUM/zko8cjbg/46nVK R1Arr+KyYJ+kX6ITa6NnSdxp2Ob0hdnVAH8MXGDksTy9Hz9+Y9WWRt9KWOHq9DO6 7ZEMnfstE3Wmh7cOwIS3PAm+6S9c1srL56qz71RNYzwJ5+C5XhWvcyknZxVXyRzC sJjJ8QLLWyhoYRnZApw= =lThF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/RnxLAFrxjZ5iSj.qXwtMObd--