On 2025/11/14 19:48, Lloyd wrote: > I'm curious - why does relink happen under /usr ? > > I would expect such transient activities - like storage of > temporary object files - to occur under /var somewhere. I'm > sure there's a good reason for the choice, but at first glance > it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. > > It might also help resolve this ongoing issue with relink in > corner-case conditions (I too have battled the same issue as > Henrich with /usr filling up in various ways on small disks). > > FWIW I tend to size /var with consideration it will grow over > time, for archiving logs and such. To me, /usr should be more > deterministic.
having it under /var will help some people and hurt some people > Per FHS, /usr should be able to be mounted read-only and able > to be exported over NFS and shared across hosts. OpenBSD doesn't use FHS
