Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts.

[Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>]

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On Mar 13, 2012 2:19 PM, "Alan McKinnon" <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

I just did some more thinking, and *maybe* the reason is to prevent
something under /usr (src and share comes to mind) from growing too big and
messes up the root filesystem.

Place the offenders on a separate partition, then mount them under /usr,
and all should be well...

Rgds,

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