----- Original Message ----- > From: "Roger Leigh" <[email protected]>
> Regarding the comments people made about having separate / and /usr > filesystems. While it was common historically, there is little or no > practical benefit to doing so in 2016. Storage sizes make it > unnecessary for pretty much all practical scenarios. The two are > managed by dpkg as a coherent whole; they are logically inseparable. > They serve the same purpose. Do reconsider whether it's actually > necessary for you to do this, or whether it's merely habit. Some > historical practices continue to have value; others, including this one, > do not. This is not true for zLinux (Linux on an IBM mainframe). Disk space on a mainframe is quite expensive compared to what we are used to on Intel hardware. I have customers who use a shared /usr among several zLinux systems, and the reason is cost savings. I don't blame anybody on this list for not knowing about this, but I find it amazing that Red Hat doesn't know better. They are a major supplier of Linux for mainframes. (FYI, that's the s390 and s390x architecture that you see available from a handful of distros). -Rob _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
