Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org> writes: > What's the benefit of having /usr on a separate partition anyway? The > only somewhat reasonable explanation that I've heard is so that it can > be mounted readonly.
One benefit, especially in a large server 'farm' is that several servers can share the same /usr by NFS mounting, read-only, the same partition on all of the servers. This both ensures that all the servers are kept in-step and greatly simplifies the upgrade process.
