Steve Litt: > John Morris via Dng said on Fri, 12 Nov 2021 17:26:52 -0600 > >On Tue, 2021-11-09 at 01:56 -0500, Steve Litt wrote: ... > >The size of the OS is just so small now, compared to storage media and > >data files. Even a small SSD will easily hold all of /usr for all but > >the most bloated installs on old obsolete storage media. So simply > >including /usr in the root filesystem makes sense for almost all use > >cases.
Size is not the only reason. You might want to have a separation for other reason. ... > Which brings up another beef I have: Why don't they build Ext4 and > maybe a couple other mainstream filesystems into the kernel, so if I > want, I can boot without initramfs? What would it cost? ... I use it all the time. Just do it yourself, it just cost you a little time, or do you volunteer to maintain a such kernel for devuan ? Regards, /Karl Hammar _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng