On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Kris Van Hees wrote: > Despite what Sun Microsystems did with linking /usr/bin and /usr/sbin > into the root filesystem as /bin and /sbin, a more sensible setup is > still to have the core utilities that are required to boot a system > (and to do basic maintenance) as part of the actual root partition.
Yes and no. I mean, you are most certainly correct that we need these "core utilities" in the root. But I suggest that we have them placed under their /usr paths where /usr will get overmounted later. I've done this for years and never had problems from Linux with it. > I've banged my head against that > stupidity in Solaris more than once when a disk that held /usr > happened to die. What a shame. I can see how frustrating that would be! Still, the scheme itself is good. It's just the implementation that fell apart. In the case you mention having something more than an empty directory at /usr in the root should make your problem go away.
