On Mar 13, 2012 2:41 PM, "Canek Peláez Valdés" <can...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 1:31 AM, Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> wrote: > > > > On Mar 13, 2012 2:19 PM, "Alan McKinnon" <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:54:58 +0700 > >> Pandu Poluan <pa...@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... > > The always used example is to have /usr shared as a read only NFS > partition among several workstations. In corporate environments it is > certainly used this way (or at least it was when I worked, and the way > I used it in my office seven or eight years ago). > > Of course, for a normal desktop user, a separate /usr is basically useless. >
Ah, thanks for the explanation. Makes sense. Rgds,
