MS == Marc Schiffbauer msch...@gentoo.org writes:
MS IIRC usr = unified system resources (not an abbrev. for user)
Nope. It is in fact for user.
Before sysv created /home, bsd used /usr for user dirs.
/usr/bin et all came later.
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On 03/14/2012 05:00 AM, James Cloos wrote:
MS == Marc Schiffbauer msch...@gentoo.org writes:
MS IIRC usr = unified system resources (not an abbrev. for user)
Nope. It is in fact for user.
Before sysv created /home, bsd used /usr for user dirs.
/usr/bin et all came later.
Anyway,
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:22:26 -0400
Joshua Kinard ku...@gentoo.org wrote:
On a somewhat sarcastic note, why don't we just deprecate /usr and
move everything back to /? Isn't that, largely, what is being
accomplished here? Solaris at least keeps some kernel stuff in / off
of /stand (I
On 13 March 2012 01:22, Joshua Kinard ku...@gentoo.org wrote:
We should be working to getting rid of /usr and bring it all back into /,
then create temporary /usr symlinks to point programs in the right
direction. After all, /usr was originally for user data, not system data,
until someone
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On 12/03/12 11:14 PM, Joshua Kinard wrote:
On 03/12/2012 22:33, Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
On 2012-03-12, at 9:22 PM, Joshua Kinard ku...@gentoo.org
wrote:
And yes, I've already tested out udev-181 on a VM with a
separate /usr. With
Am Montag, 12. März 2012, 21:22:26 schrieb Joshua Kinard:
[...]
After all, /usr was originally for user data, not system data,
until someone cooked up /home (I don't know the full exact history here, so
feel free to correct me).
IIRC usr = unified system resources (not an abbrev. for user)
On 13 March 2012 14:41, Marc Schiffbauer msch...@gentoo.org wrote:
Am Montag, 12. März 2012, 21:22:26 schrieb Joshua Kinard:
[...]
After all, /usr was originally for user data, not system data,
until someone cooked up /home (I don't know the full exact history here, so
feel free to correct
On 03/13/2012 07:54, James Broadhead wrote:
On 13 March 2012 01:22, Joshua Kinard ku...@gentoo.org wrote:
We should be working to getting rid of /usr and bring it all back into /,
then create temporary /usr symlinks to point programs in the right
direction. After all, /usr was originally for
On 03/13/2012 01:17, Luca Barbato wrote:
So you need need a smaller udev that is completely self contained and make
sure anything needed for the key rules works. I wonder if the pci-ids cannot
stay somewhere in /etc or /lib
lu
I think gregkh is already on record as saying that the
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Joshua Kinard ku...@gentoo.org wrote:
The trend now seems to be to modularize everything these days, even stuff
like the core disk drivers, then build those core modules into an initramfs
that the kernel cherrypicks from at boot. That's the perception, anyways,
On 13 March 2012 14:22, Joshua Kinard ku...@gentoo.org wrote:
I thought this up on a whim, it hasn't been tested nor vetted. It's largely
meant as a joke, but also to provoke discussion on the current filesystem
design and the direction we're getting pulled in with Fedora's declaration
that
On 03/12/2012 21:37, Kent Fredric wrote:
On 13 March 2012 14:22, Joshua Kinard ku...@gentoo.org wrote:
I thought this up on a whim, it hasn't been tested nor vetted. It's largely
meant as a joke, but also to provoke discussion on the current filesystem
design and the direction we're getting
On 2012-03-12, at 9:22 PM, Joshua Kinard ku...@gentoo.org wrote:
And yes, I've already tested out udev-181 on a VM with a
separate /usr. With devtmpfs, the system fully boots just fine, no
initramfs needed. Guess what the only piece of software to mess up is?
Udev. I largely think it's
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:14:23PM -0400, Joshua Kinard wrote:
Yeah, I think it's an easy fix either in openrc or in an initscript
somewhere. I changed nothing except my kernel (was missing devtmpfs -- it's
not under Filesystems!), uninstalled module-init-tools, and installed kmod +
udev-181.
On 3/12/12 8:53 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:14:23PM -0400, Joshua Kinard wrote:
Yeah, I think it's an easy fix either in openrc or in an initscript
somewhere. I changed nothing except my kernel (was missing devtmpfs -- it's
not under Filesystems!), uninstalled
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