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From: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@gentoo.org>
Cc: <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Let's redesign the entire filesystem!
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:27:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F61294B.9040101@cs.stonybrook.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120314224916.GA12279@kroah.com>

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On 03/14/12 18:49, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 06:39:05PM -0400, Richard Yao wrote:
>> With that said, I have a few questions:
>>
>> 1. Why does no one mention the enterprise use case at all?
> 
> It has been pointed out before, why constantly repeat ourselves.

Simple. No one has documented it. A webpage that makes a few vague
references to "enterprise use" does not count as documentation.

I happened to figure it out when trying to rationalize why anyone would
want this, but this is hardly obvious to those that imagine a computer
as a self-sufficient single disk system.

>> 2. Why not make rootfs a NFS mount with a unionfs at the SAN/NAS device?
> 
> unionfs is still a "work in progress", some systems can't do that yet.

That sounds like something that needs to be fixed.

>> 3. Why not let the users choose where these directories go and support
>> both locations?
> 
> Because a plethera of options is a sure way to make sure that half of
> them don't work over the long run.
> 
> We aren't Debian here people, we don't support "everything" :)

Gentoo provides far more options than Debian does, so this seems
somewhat contradictory to me.


> If you want to support both, great, feel free to step up and do the
> work.

Fair enough, however, I should remind you that not much will happen
without a decision from the Gentoo Council. I am willing to accept
whatever decision they make, but I think that exposing this decision to
users is something that is within our ability to do.

Portage provides use with the ability to do abstractions that other
distributions cannot do, such as permitting people to merge
/usr{bin,lib{32,64,},sbin} into /.


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  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-14 23:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 165+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-11  2:27 [gentoo-dev] newsitem: unmasking udev-181 William Hubbs
2012-03-11  2:53 ` [gentoo-dev] " Rich Freeman
2012-03-11  3:28   ` Luca Barbato
2012-03-11  3:50     ` Rich Freeman
2012-03-11  5:12       ` Luca Barbato
2012-03-11 17:33     ` William Hubbs
2012-03-11 17:35       ` Samuli Suominen
2012-03-11 18:00         ` Michał Górny
2012-03-13  1:22       ` [gentoo-dev] Let's redesign the entire filesystem! [was newsitem: unmasking udev-181] Joshua Kinard
2012-03-13  1:37         ` Kent Fredric
2012-03-13  2:16           ` Joshua Kinard
2012-03-13  2:33         ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-03-13  3:14           ` Joshua Kinard
2012-03-13  3:53             ` Robin H. Johnson
2012-03-13  5:17               ` Luca Barbato
2012-03-14  0:20                 ` Joshua Kinard
2012-03-14  0:52                   ` Rich Freeman
2012-03-13 13:36             ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-03-13 10:31         ` Jeroen Roovers
2012-03-13 11:54         ` James Broadhead
2012-03-14  0:16           ` Joshua Kinard
2012-03-14  8:39             ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2012-03-14 12:40               ` [gentoo-dev] Re: Let's redesign the entire filesystem! Joshua Kinard
2012-03-14 14:41                 ` Greg KH
2012-03-14 14:51                   ` Philip Webb
2012-03-14 15:04                     ` Greg KH
2012-03-14 15:08                       ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-03-14 15:22                         ` Greg KH
2012-03-14 15:59                           ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-03-14 21:00                             ` Greg KH
2012-03-14 16:28                           ` Matthew Summers
2012-03-15 13:22                             ` Joshua Kinard
2012-03-14 17:11                           ` Maxim Kammerer
2012-03-14 17:29                             ` Zac Medico
2012-03-14 17:58                               ` Matthew Summers
2012-03-14 18:04                                 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-03-14 18:36                                 ` Maxim Kammerer
2012-03-14 18:56                                   ` Zac Medico
2012-03-14 19:14                                     ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-03-14 19:26                                       ` Zac Medico
2012-03-14 19:57                                     ` David Leverton
2012-03-14 21:04                                       ` Greg KH
2012-03-14 22:14                                         ` David Leverton
2012-03-14 22:51                                           ` Greg KH
2012-03-14 23:21                                             ` David Leverton
2012-03-14 23:44                                               ` Greg KH
2012-03-14 23:58                                                 ` Richard Yao
2012-03-15  0:07                                                   ` Greg KH
2012-03-15  0:29                                                 ` David Leverton
2012-03-15 11:20                                                   ` Stelian Ionescu
2012-03-15 12:23                                                     ` Joshua Kinard
2012-03-15 14:01                                                 ` Joshua Kinard
2012-03-14 23:47                                               ` Zac Medico
2012-03-15  0:36                                                 ` David Leverton
2012-03-15  0:45                                                   ` Zac Medico
2012-03-15  0:49                                                     ` David Leverton
2012-03-15 12:27                                                     ` Joshua Kinard
2012-03-15 15:29                                                       ` Zac Medico
2012-03-15  0:58                                                   ` Richard Yao
2012-03-15  1:06                                                     ` Zac Medico
2012-03-15  1:49                                                       ` Richard Yao
2012-03-16 23:29                                                         ` Zac Medico
2012-03-16 23:29                                                         ` Zac Medico
2012-03-15 12:16                                             ` Joshua Kinard
2012-03-15 12:09                                           ` Joshua Kinard
2012-03-14 22:39                                         ` Richard Yao
2012-03-14 22:49                                           ` Greg KH
2012-03-14 23:27                                             ` Richard Yao [this message]
2012-03-14 23:37                                               ` Greg KH
2012-03-14 23:51                                                 ` Richard Yao
2012-03-15  1:07                                                   ` Rich Freeman
2012-03-15  1:37                                                     ` Zac Medico
2012-03-15  1:44                                                     ` Richard Yao
2012-03-16  1:17                                                     ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-16  1:18                                                       ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-15  5:18                                                 ` Luca Barbato
2012-03-15  8:13                                                 ` Martin Gysel
2012-03-15 12:40                                                 ` Joshua Kinard
2012-03-15 20:44                                                   ` Richard Yao
2012-03-17  7:12                                                     ` Walter Dnes
2012-03-19  5:21                                                       ` Walter Dnes
2012-03-15 12:34                                               ` Joshua Kinard
2012-03-15 20:45                                                 ` Richard Yao
2012-03-15 21:49                                                   ` Maxim Kammerer
2012-03-14 20:03                                     ` Richard Yao
2012-03-14 20:55                                       ` Zac Medico
2012-03-14 21:05                                         ` Richard Yao
2012-03-15  4:10                                           ` Zac Medico
2012-03-15 12:47                                         ` Joshua Kinard
2012-03-15 13:36                                     ` Joshua Kinard
2012-03-14 19:30                                 ` Jeroen Roovers
2012-03-15  5:04                                 ` Luca Barbato
2012-03-14 17:59                               ` Rich Freeman
2012-03-15  5:24                                 ` Luca Barbato
2012-03-15 12:51                                 ` Joshua Kinard
2012-03-14 20:12                       ` Walter Dnes
2012-03-15 11:04                       ` Joshua Kinard
2012-03-15 12:30                         ` Rich Freeman
2012-03-15 13:05                           ` Joshua Kinard
2012-03-15 14:42                           ` Greg KH
2012-03-15 19:04                             ` Rich Freeman
2012-03-15 19:17                               ` [gentoo-dev] /dev/serial/ (was "Let's redesign the entire filesystem!") Greg KH
2012-03-15 19:41                                 ` Rich Freeman
2012-03-15 14:41                         ` [gentoo-dev] Re: Let's redesign the entire filesystem! Greg KH
2012-03-16  0:47                           ` Joshua Kinard
2012-03-16  2:43                             ` Greg KH
2012-03-16  3:01                               ` Richard Yao
2012-03-16 15:18                                 ` Greg KH
2012-03-16 17:00                                   ` Michael Orlitzky
     [not found]                                 ` <7c08803524244ff0808d16539b8f9926@HUBCAS2.cs.stonybrook.edu>
2012-03-16 22:41                                   ` Richard Yao
2012-03-13 14:41         ` [gentoo-dev] Let's redesign the entire filesystem! [was newsitem: unmasking udev-181] Marc Schiffbauer
2012-03-13 23:12           ` James Broadhead
2012-03-14 12:00           ` James Cloos
2012-03-14 17:52             ` Zac Medico
2012-03-14 18:48               ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2012-03-14 20:10                 ` Kent Fredric
2012-03-15  6:33                   ` Duncan
2012-03-15 13:07                   ` Joshua Kinard
2012-03-13  5:11       ` [gentoo-dev] Re: newsitem: unmasking udev-181 Luca Barbato
2012-03-14  0:13         ` Joshua Kinard
2012-03-14  8:03           ` Duncan
2012-03-14 12:07             ` Joshua Kinard
2012-03-14 18:43               ` Duncan
2012-03-14 21:13               ` Walter Dnes
2012-03-15 13:10                 ` Joshua Kinard
2012-03-15 21:49                   ` Robin H. Johnson
2012-03-11  3:44   ` Dale
2012-03-11  5:48   ` Duncan
2012-03-11 11:03   ` Petteri Räty
2012-03-11 15:33     ` Zac Medico
2012-03-11 21:28       ` Petteri Räty
2012-03-11 21:43         ` William Hubbs
2012-03-11 21:48           ` Petteri Räty
2012-03-11 23:15             ` William Hubbs
2012-03-12 12:37               ` Rich Freeman
2012-03-12 17:01                 ` Matthias Hanft
2012-03-12 19:32                   ` Robin H. Johnson
2012-03-13 14:34               ` Petteri Räty
2012-03-11 22:57   ` Robin H. Johnson
2012-03-13  8:43   ` Walter Dnes
2012-03-13  9:14     ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-14  0:29       ` Joshua Kinard
2012-03-14  0:36         ` Stelian Ionescu
2012-03-14  1:04         ` Maxim Kammerer
2012-03-14  1:14         ` Robin H. Johnson
2012-03-14 13:02         ` Rich Freeman
2012-03-13 10:32     ` Robin H. Johnson
2012-03-11  6:49 ` Ryan Hill
2012-03-11 21:08   ` Robin H. Johnson
2012-03-11 23:03     ` Duncan
2012-03-11 23:14       ` Robin H. Johnson
2012-03-12  9:02         ` Duncan
2012-03-12 14:09     ` Marc Schiffbauer
2012-03-12 19:41       ` Robin H. Johnson
2012-03-13  2:06     ` Ryan Hill
2012-03-12 18:34   ` Sven Vermeulen
2012-03-13  2:04     ` Ryan Hill
2012-03-11  8:06 ` [gentoo-dev] " Neil Bothwick
2012-03-11  8:41   ` Michał Górny
2012-03-11  9:36     ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-11 10:43       ` Michał Górny
2012-03-11 17:26 ` William Hubbs
2012-03-11 18:08   ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-03-11 23:09   ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2012-03-12 20:50   ` [gentoo-dev] " Robin H. Johnson

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