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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts.
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:13:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120313091356.5a947032@khamul.example.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA2qdGVtsZ2m_2tA2F==3r5gpk3XjirB5f_ptH08=p-uB7taBg@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:54:58 +0700
Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info> wrote:

> > The idea of trying to launch udevd and initialize devices without
> > the software, installed in /usr, which is required by those devices
> > is a configuration that causes problems in many real-world,
> > practical situations.
> >
> > The requirement of having /usr on the same partition as / is also a
> > configuration that causes problems in many real-world, practical
> > situations.
> >
> 
> I quite often read about this, and after some thinking, I have to
> ask: why?
> 

I've also thought about this and I also want to ask why?

I stopped using a separate /usr on my workstations a long time ago when
I realized it was pointless. The days of 5M hard disks when the entire
OS didn't fit on one are long gone. The days of my software going tits
up at the drop of a hat requiring a minimal repair environment to fix
it at boot are also long gone (my desk is littered with LiveCDs and
bootable flash drives).

So I can't find a single good reason why /usr *must* be separate and my
workstations are the only machines that will ever have hotplug booting
issues.

I'm even considering changing the install standards for the company
servers to dispense with separate /usr, as long as there are safeguards
against clowns who don't read INSTALL files and happily
accept /usr/local/<package>/var as a storage area.

-- 
Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com




  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-13  7:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-10  2:48 [gentoo-user] LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts Dale
2012-03-10  3:44 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-10  4:16   ` Dale
2012-03-10  5:41     ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-10  6:03       ` Dale
2012-03-10  8:45         ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-10  9:45           ` Dale
2012-03-10  9:52             ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-10  9:53             ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-10 10:30               ` Dale
2012-03-10 10:49                 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-10 11:28                   ` Dale
2012-03-10 11:12             ` William Kenworthy
2012-03-10 10:58 ` pk
2012-03-10 15:35   ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-10 20:50     ` pk
2012-03-10 21:01       ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-10 22:12       ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-11  2:36       ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-11  9:37         ` pk
2012-03-11 12:16           ` Jorge Martínez López
2012-03-11 18:26             ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-12 18:13               ` Jorge Martínez López
2012-03-11 20:59             ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2012-03-12 18:23               ` Jorge Martínez López
2012-03-12 18:30                 ` Michael Mol
2012-03-12 18:39                   ` Bruce Hill, Jr.
2012-03-12 20:25                     ` Mick
2012-03-12 20:39                     ` Michael Mol
2012-03-12 20:40                     ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-12 23:22                     ` Dale
2012-03-12 23:53                       ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-13 15:35                         ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-13 15:50                           ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-13  1:58                       ` Mike Edenfield
2012-03-13  4:54                         ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-13  7:13                           ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2012-03-13  7:31                             ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-13  7:38                               ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-13  8:03                                 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-13 11:07                                 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-13 18:34                             ` pk
2012-03-14 16:17                             ` Mike Edenfield
2012-03-14 16:28                               ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-14 22:15                                 ` Mike Edenfield
2012-03-15  1:03                                   ` Walter Dnes
2012-03-15  2:47                                     ` Dale
2012-03-15  9:13                                       ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-15 10:10                                         ` Dale
2012-03-15 10:18                                           ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-15 12:41                                         ` Tanstaafl
2012-03-15 13:05                                           ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-15 13:56                                             ` Tanstaafl
2012-03-15 14:13                                               ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-15 14:13                                               ` Mark Knecht
2012-03-16  5:39                                             ` Joost Roeleveld
2012-03-16  8:47                                               ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-15 14:09                                       ` Mike Edenfield
2012-03-15 14:47                                         ` Michael Mol
2012-03-15 16:37                                           ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-16 18:14                                         ` Dale
2012-03-15 12:38                                     ` Tanstaafl
2012-03-13  8:09                       ` Walter Dnes
2012-03-13  8:20                         ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-14 14:21                         ` Dale
2012-03-14 14:41                         ` Alan Mackenzie
2012-03-14 14:55                           ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-13  8:15       ` [gentoo-user] " Walter Dnes
2012-03-11  3:25     ` John Blinka
2012-03-10 17:13 ` Todd Goodman
2012-03-10 21:07   ` Dale

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