On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 09:14:35PM +0100, Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) wrote:
After some discussion with others debian developpers, I really do not
see why you want to do that.
I'd suggest than ntfs volumes should be mounted after /usr. It should be
always the case if you do not have a bad fstab.
Frankly, it's a lot easier for everyone not to have to worry about the
ordering to that extent. Sure, the installer *could* arrange it. But
pretty much every other filesystem is mountable before /usr, so it
wouldn't remotely surprise me if somebody naïvely added an NTFS
filesystem in front of /usr. I much prefer a robust system to a system
that sacrifices robustness for 164KB of extra space in /; in my view
164KB is not worth the time people are likely to end up spending trying
to work out what broke.
I think it should be a general rule that tools needed to mount
filesystems should be in /. It makes debugging and system recovery a
whole lot easier.
I also think it's very likely that at some point somebody will want to
use a FUSE filesystem for /usr itself. FUSE is getting more and more
useful for all sorts of things. It belongs in / so that its usefulness
isn't artifically limited.
Thanks,
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Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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