On 08/11/2010 01:47 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Debian supports /usr as a separate file system from /, /usr as a remote > file system, and /, /usr, and /etc mounted read-only (unless you want to > do something that obviously requires them to be read-write, like change > configuration or install new packages). However, I don't believe any of > this is documented explicitly.
Note that upstreams are making it harder to really support a seperate /usr. Most notable example is udev which uses /usr/share/misc/pci.ids. It's not that udev is not functional without it, but it means that if we support a seperate /usr, we need an extra udevadm invokation to include them later. There will for sure be similar cases, where we need to go through extra loops to really support a separate /usr. Do we support /usr as a remote file system aka do people use it and is it well tested? I think it's a good idea to look into documenting what file system configurations we do support. I'm unsure about how many we really do support nor about how many we really want to support though as it seem to get harder to support these. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org