On Sat, 29 Dec 2012 12:27:03 Mark David Dumlao wrote: > On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 2:53 AM, Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > On Sat, 29 Dec 2012 01:16:34 +0800 > > > > Mark David Dumlao <madum...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> whatever filesystem type > >> > >> it is. > >> > >>Following this, for any distro to correctly FHS, there needs to be a > >>package manager switch to copy arbitrary packages (and dependent > >>libraries) from /usr to /. As of yet not implemented. > >> > > Not at all, FUSE is a userspace flesystem meant to be used after single > > user. > > > > The spec says you have to be able to mount other filesystems not all > > other filesystems. I'd like to see you mount an OpenBSD ffs partition. > > If "other filesystems" is not qualified (and it is not), normal > English rules would have it mean "all other filesystems" which I take > to mean "all other filesystems on the system". Can you justify a > better interpretation?
The latest FHS dates from 2004, the same year as the *earliest* FUSE release I can see on the FUSE web site. I'd say a good working hypothesis is that FHS was simply written *before* any user-space file systems were more than an experimental oddity. > IF the system's /home directory is formatted as an OpenBSD partition, > then yes, FHS demands that tools for mounting and recovering it be in > /. I'd certainly be happy "fixing" FHS to say that tools for mounting and recovering "essential system partitions" be located in /, and that these "essential system partitions" contain the tools for mounting and recovering non-essential partitions. If you are wondering where I stand, I currently boot with an initramfs, since I have everything except /boot located on LVM devices. This includes / and a seperate /usr, done mostly from habit after 15 years of habit, and working where that was the corporate standard production practice. As to system recovery, nowdays I ususlly do that by booting from a live CD/DVD so I have access to all the tools when I need them. Which reminds me that I need to update my rescue DVD to the latest version... -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro
