On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 09:14:35PM +0100, "Adam Cécile (Le_Vert)" wrote: > After some discussion with others debian developpers, I really do not > see why you want to do that. > I'd suggest than ntfs volumes should be mounted after /usr. It should be > always the case if you do not have a bad fstab.
Frankly, it's a lot easier for everyone not to have to worry about the ordering to that extent. Sure, the installer *could* arrange it. But pretty much every other filesystem is mountable before /usr, so it wouldn't remotely surprise me if somebody naïvely added an NTFS filesystem in front of /usr. I much prefer a robust system to a system that sacrifices robustness for 164KB of extra space in /; in my view 164KB is not worth the time people are likely to end up spending trying to work out what broke. I think it should be a general rule that tools needed to mount filesystems should be in /. It makes debugging and system recovery a whole lot easier. I also think it's very likely that at some point somebody will want to use a FUSE filesystem for /usr itself. FUSE is getting more and more useful for all sorts of things. It belongs in / so that its usefulness isn't artifically limited. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
