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 1S7uZn-0006BP-Ff for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:13:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5BB60E0A6C; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:13:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0A89E0982 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:13:07 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AokGAKU/KE+4rw20/2dsb2JhbACBX48mjVV5pwmGGQSUToZLhAk X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.73,1,1325480400"; d="scan'208";a="168013482" Received: from 184-175-13-180.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([184.175.13.180]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with SMTP; 14 Mar 2012 16:13:06 -0400 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:12:35 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:12:35 -0400 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Let's redesign the entire filesystem! Message-ID: <20120314201235.GA32344@waltdnes.org> References: <4F5C1BE9.3040609@gentoo.org> <20120311173355.GB6599@linux1> <4F5EA152.80604@gentoo.org> <4F5FE34A.4030609@gentoo.org> <4F6091CE.1050009@gentoo.org> <20120314144115.GA30606@kroah.com> <20120314145144.GC3200@ca.inter.net> <20120314150431.GA2033@kroah.com> 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: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120314150431.GA2033@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: 5568f178-2603-4cae-9b9f-cb658b0e7393 X-Archives-Hash: e458cfa1707bdee87f4daf3740f5a38a On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 08:04:31AM -0700, Greg KH wrote > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 10:51:44AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > > 120314 Greg KH wrote: > > > if you have /usr on a different filesystem today, with no initrd, > > > your machine could be broken and you don't even know it. > > > > Whatever do you mean ? -- if it were truly broken, > > it wouldn't perform in some important & obvious respect. > > Not always, no, it isn't obvious that something didn't start up > correctly, or that it didn't fully load properly. Some programs later > on recover and handle things better. Throwing that one right back at you, if you have /usr on the same file system, plus you boot with systemd, your machine could be broken and you don't even know it. -- Walter Dnes