On Sat, Jan 02, 2016 at 01:04:58PM +0000, Simon Hobson wrote: > Clarke Sideroad <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I see little choice but to make the merged bin option available, after > > all this is all about choice, but for gosh sakes it should not be the > > default. > > The issue - as I see it - is much the same as with systemd. If the upstream > stuff adopts it, then it becomes a lot more work to maintain something > different. SO having an option of split /bin and /usr/bin is moot if all > packages assume they are merged. > I noted from one of the links posted a comment in the FAQ that "/usr must be > mounted early on by initramfs" - which really contradicts common sense in > that initrd/initramfs should really only have the minimum required to get / > mounted so that the rest can happen from there. > > I have worked with Unix systems in the past with separate /usr filesystem > (SCO OpenServer 5 - ahh, nostalgia). Back then we had to create a boot and > root floppy (yes I know some youngsters have probably never seen one) and I > can recall the problems I found making enough room on the root disk to > include cpio (so I could read the backup tapes and restore /usr). > But given that (eg) USB drives are generally not smaller than GBs in size > these days, it's hard to make an argument on disk space.
Some of us still boot from floppies. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
