On Mon, 07.03.11 16:04, Dr. Werner Fink ([email protected]) wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 05:09:03PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > On Fri, 25.02.11 13:35, Adam Spragg ([email protected]) wrote: > > > > > > > > On Friday 25 Feb 2011 13:00:51 Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > > > > Commit > > > > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/commit/?id=80758717a6359cbe6048f43a17c > > > > 2b53a3ca8c2fa declared separate /usr unsupported. What is really the > > > > reason > > > > for it? > > > > > > This does seem odd. Might I also point out... > > > > > > >From <http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#THEROOTFILESYSTEM> > > > > > > To boot a system, enough must be present on the root partition to mount > > > other > > > filesystems. This includes utilities, configuration, boot loader > > > information, > > > and other essential start-up data. /usr, /opt, and /var are designed such > > > that > > > they may be located on other partitions or filesystems. > > > > Well, turns out no distro really follows the spec here, do they? > > Hmmm ... AFAIK we do. If things do not work, then it has to be fixed > as we have users/customers around definitely use this feature.
Well, as a matter of fact this is not where we are right now and I doubt it is worth "fixing" this. And I do think this text answers all questions you might have: http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken > > I think this is mostly wishful thinking by some folks who wrote the FHS, > > and does not describe what really is. > > As FHS specs are part of the LSB, all Enterprise prooducts should > follow the FHS. I doubt any really do. At least RHEL doesn't and SLES neither. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
