Re: [gentoo-dev] supporting /usr on separate partition

2011-10-17 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
Splitting this up since i'm kind of starting two threads here.. - Documentation discussion - On 16/10/11 02:44 PM, Zac Medico wrote: Well, you'll have to define the meaning of support in this context. I simply said that it shouldn't be encouraged, with me reason being that it tends

Re: [gentoo-dev] supporting /usr on separate partition

2011-10-17 Thread Zac Medico
On 10/17/2011 09:02 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: Splitting this up since i'm kind of starting two threads here.. - Documentation discussion - On 16/10/11 02:44 PM, Zac Medico wrote: Well, you'll have to define the meaning of support in this context. I simply said that it shouldn't

Re: [gentoo-dev] supporting /usr on separate partition

2011-10-17 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
...and recombining again.. On 2011-10-17, at 1:24 PM, Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: On 10/17/2011 09:02 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: Splitting this up since i'm kind of starting two threads here.. - Documentation discussion - On 16/10/11 02:44 PM, Zac Medico wrote: Well,

Re: [gentoo-dev] supporting /usr on separate partition

2011-10-17 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 10/17/2011 08:50 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: please disable HTML in your mail client.

Re: [gentoo-dev] supporting /usr on separate partition

2011-10-17 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
On 17/10/11 01:55 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 10/17/2011 08:50 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: please disable HTML in your mail client. CRAP. sorry all. will stop emailing from my phone.

Re: [gentoo-dev] supporting /usr on separate partition

2011-10-17 Thread Sven Vermeulen
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 01:50:04PM -0400, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: If someone wants to take on the burden of maintaining an init wrapper like that, then I guess that's fine. However, I wouldn't consider it to be an absolute requirement. I think it would be fine (maybe preferable) to simply

Re: [gentoo-dev] supporting /usr on separate partition

2011-10-17 Thread Zac Medico
On 10/17/2011 01:01 PM, Sven Vermeulen wrote: --Snippet from the commit result: p However, multiple partitions have disadvantages as well. If not configured properly, you will have a system with lots of free space on one partition and none on another. Another nuisance is that separate

Re: [gentoo-dev] supporting /usr on separate partition (was: Suggestion for getting rid of udev)

2011-10-16 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
On 15/10/11 06:07 PM, Zac Medico wrote: On 10/15/2011 01:57 AM, Wulf C. Krueger wrote: On 15.10.2011 10:42, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: in what way will exherbo deal wih this mess? Are there any plans? We don't support /usr on a separate partition. People can, of course, do that and I'll

Re: [gentoo-dev] supporting /usr on separate partition

2011-10-16 Thread Zac Medico
On 10/16/2011 05:52 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: On 15/10/11 06:07 PM, Zac Medico wrote: On 10/15/2011 01:57 AM, Wulf C. Krueger wrote: On 15.10.2011 10:42, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: in what way will exherbo deal wih this mess? Are there any plans? We don't support /usr on a separate

Re: [gentoo-dev] supporting /usr on separate partition

2011-10-16 Thread Graham Murray
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

Re: [gentoo-dev] supporting /usr on separate partition

2011-10-16 Thread Michał Górny
On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:36:23 +0100 Graham Murray gra...@gmurray.org.uk wrote: 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