Re: Should /usr be merged with /? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?)

[Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1ists@yahoo.co.uk>]

On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 20:19:44 +0800
Mark David Dumlao <madumlao@gmail.com> wrote:

> > I'd certainly be happy "fixing" FHS to say that tools for mounting
> > and recovering "essential system partitions" be located in /, and
> > that these "essential system partitions" contain the tools for
> > mounting and recovering non-essential partitions.  
> 
> The beef with the comment on /home being nonessential is besides the
> point, /usr, /var, or /opt could have been some special case FUSE
> filesystem, making it still impossible to predict which files _should_
> be in /. The more relevant matter here is that plan FHS, in
> combination with FUSE, makes that difficult.

That's not best practice though is it and I completely disagree with the
rules you seem to believe the english language has too. 

It is not a difficult problem, just FUSE is not expected or intended
for that, if that changes it is easily fixed immediately by the admin
or by the packager preferably in concert with some root management body
or project. 

Many/All of these issues that have come up are actually of 0 effect, we
are not talking about preventing users from merging them as most Linux
users do because they just hit ok ok ok in ubuntus installation but
about a major degradation due to some devs whim and without I might add
proper community involvement or commentry ALLOWED. One things for sure
real problems will arise directly due to this merge if this merge
becomes standard and possibly with won't fixes used leading to
pointlessly breaking existing servers and linux becoming even more of an
unorganised mess.

On windows production machines I arrived at putting c: on it's own
smaller partition and program files on a larger partition. It meant I
could have many more c: backups and restore much more quickly too
resulting in much higher uptime and reduced loss in the cases that
registry restore wasn't good enough and system restore is crap. With
windows 7 it's not so beneficial as windows 7 is huge but still useful
as everything is getting huge on windows these days. You do get the
occasional dumb program perhaps fixable with a drive link within c:.

Windows 8 should be more reliable but I expect brings new issues in this
area due to app restrictions and where sandboxing could have been used
for security instead.