From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 660D71381F3 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 05:46:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 08DEA21C015; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 05:45:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yh0-f52.google.com (mail-yh0-f52.google.com [209.85.213.52]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6BF9E21C015 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 05:44:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-yh0-f52.google.com with SMTP id o22so1123204yho.11 for ; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 21:44:28 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=HXIP6VZRiBgNsrlHnEQAJ77EjYJZDniSKbpI6xh9Vaw=; b=jNV3SbJ67wDl2uIKrEgdCHYxfxfEiFqOWfhsNqQXup0YKodMBYHctwzw4VPZ2FCi/E nCQjKIbU5Js5hEtwybGyN5xGtzaU3KQhsIY6lfq7Yfxlf6qXIKrENiu+wuwtn0KeP+pB FLGG6JDWupFSN+wkMDDsuY1UnKrb7QtlN39MRHVA3xVZogyrhLUSzdl4ehj8lg5bGgUU I4Wnqf8RKUyPLh/klczbVa2GHK7cvIoAf4BKRG6AXlruwKWFcsocsRcOD3XE62K8KKht fz9x05V32giWP0+pCOjZphtmr1W5TuQtUjK1O5Bh4686ZTLfoW3zpaPZKWqqFhMEs68A pj3w== Received: by 10.236.189.38 with SMTP id b26mr12777694yhn.15.1355723068473; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 21:44:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-94-18.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.94.18]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id z11sm10936423anj.13.2012.12.16.21.44.26 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 16 Dec 2012 21:44:27 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <50CEB13A.1040601@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 23:44:26 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0 SeaMonkey/2.14.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet? References: <50CB1942.3020900@gmail.com> <50CB4A3C.1030109@gmail.com> <50CB5406.7040404@gmail.com> <8738z7hgsa.fsf@ist.utl.pt> <20121216171043.71084070@khamul.example.com> <20121216184953.GD16560@server> <876241d9gn.fsf@ist.utl.pt> <20121217002613.294cff70@kc-sys.chadwicks.me.uk> In-Reply-To: <20121217002613.294cff70@kc-sys.chadwicks.me.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7a972dbe-bf90-4d43-863b-b22c17a9da29 X-Archives-Hash: bce60299f4e11173fc31c7bcf3106571 Kevin Chadwick wrote: > On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 22:32:24 +0200 > nunojsilva@ist.utl.pt (Nuno J. Silva) wrote: > >> My thanks, too! There's nothing like reading on some actual experience >> with this. So this was once the reason to keep / separate. Not that >> important anymore (but this is still no excuse to force people to keep >> /usr in the same filesystem). > Sorry but real world data is important and I am fully aware of the > academic theorist problems compared to practical experience but this > simply doesn't apply here. I didn't see any evidence or > argument that a larger root conducting millions more writes is as safe > as a smaller read only one perhaos not touched for months. > > The testing criteria were very generally put and just because an > earthquake hasn't hit 200 building in the last 50 years is no reason to > remove shock absorbers or other measures from sky scrapers. > > Question. A file system, /usr for example, is mounted read only. The system crashes for whatever reason such as a power failure. Since it is mounted read only, would there be a larger or smaller risk of corrupted data on that partition? From what I understand, the possible corruption is from files not being written to the drive but since it is mounted read only, then that removes that possibility. Just checking on a thought here. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!