On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 00:23 on Sunday 06 February 2011, Mark > Shields > did opine thusly: > > > > It's just plain outright stupid to have a default location for > something > > > (that > > > by definition is variable) in a place that by definition (or by > de-facto > > > consent) must be mountable read-only and have no ill effects on the > rest > > > of the machine. > > > > > > -- > > > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > > > > Just put portage on it's own partition (LVM) and be done with it. > > > Mark, > > I cannot believe that you actually typed that, you know better. > > But my eyes don't lie. > > So. Someone comes along with a valid beef about a default. This default can > be > changed, this is Gentoo. Ye gods, we change shit around here at the drop of > a > hat for no good reason sometimes. And your answer is to install LVM with > it's > deps, re-organize the disk, learn how to use lvm (not everyone knows the > product or uses it) then go through the pain of moving stuff which not all > users know how to do. > > All to get around a silly ancient default that long ago failed the "most > useful to most people" test. > > You want to re-think your answer maybe? > > > -- > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > > No, I don't. Why are you so combative/easily threatened? My suggestion was a valid one, for those already using LVM -- I've used LVM to do RAID1 with several servers, and always put it on it's own LVM partition. The dead horse is dead.
