[Steve Langasek] > My knee-jerk reaction to the Fedora proposal had been that it was > sick and wrong and would cause unacceptable breakage for users on > upgrades if Debian adopted the same plan. However, I struggled to > formulate a concrete scenario where losing support for that last > configuration would actually make a difference.
I can give you one example of what we loose if stuff in / depend on stuff in /usr/. I read the entire thread, and everyone is talking about the boot, while ignoring the shutdown. When using NSS modules linked to libraries in /usr/ and bash (or any other shell loading user information at startup) as /bin/sh, the shell scripts being run to shut down the machine will block /usr/ from being umounted. When /usr/ is a LVM partition, this block LVM from being shut down, and leave /usr/ in a dirty state and LVM not properly shut down before poweroff. Thus, having stuff in / depend on libraries in /usr/ can cause real problems during shutdown. See <URL: http://bugs.debian.org/120340 > and <URL: http://bugs.debian.org/159771 > for the old story about bash and LDAP NSS blocking umount. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
