Auteur: Hendrik Boom Datum: Aan: dng Onderwerp: Re: [DNG] support for merged /usr in Debian
On Sat, Jan 02, 2016 at 01:04:58PM +0000, Simon Hobson wrote: > Clarke Sideroad <clarke.sideroad@???> wrote:
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> > I see little choice but to make the merged bin option available, after
> > all this is all about choice, but for gosh sakes it should not be the
> > default.
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> The issue - as I see it - is much the same as with systemd. If the upstream stuff adopts it, then it becomes a lot more work to maintain something different. SO having an option of split /bin and /usr/bin is moot if all packages assume they are merged.
> I noted from one of the links posted a comment in the FAQ that "/usr must be mounted early on by initramfs" - which really contradicts common sense in that initrd/initramfs should really only have the minimum required to get / mounted so that the rest can happen from there.
>
> I have worked with Unix systems in the past with separate /usr filesystem (SCO OpenServer 5 - ahh, nostalgia). Back then we had to create a boot and root floppy (yes I know some youngsters have probably never seen one) and I can recall the problems I found making enough room on the root disk to include cpio (so I could read the backup tapes and restore /usr).
> But given that (eg) USB drives are generally not smaller than GBs in size these days, it's hard to make an argument on disk space.