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

[Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>]

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On Mar 13, 2012 9:05 AM, "Mike Edenfield" <kutulu@kutulu.org> wrote:
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>  From: Dale [mailto:rdalek1967@gmail.com]
>  Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 7:23 PM
>
> > I like that quote.  I may not be dev material but I know this /usr mess
> > is not right.  The only reason it is happening is because of one or two
> > distros that push it to make it easier for themselves.
>
> If that's honestly what you think then I suspect you don't understand the
problem as well as you believe.
>
> 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?

> The requirement to ensure that /usr is *somehow available* before
launching udevd is a configuration that, I am told, causes problems in some
specialized real-world, practical situations. (I am ignoring "problems"
such as "initramd might possibly break maybe" or "that's more work than I
want to do" as being the expected griping that always happens when you ask
a group of geeks to change something.)
>

When one's handling enterprise servers, "might possibly break" is a 95%
certainty of "you do that and I'll make sure to have a pink slip standing
by." :-)

Rgds,

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