On 2018年11月17日 20:57:23 JST, Alessandro Selli <alessandroselli@???> wrote:
>On 16/11/18 at 11:43, KatolaZ wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 10:19:30AM +0000, Rowland Penny wrote:
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>>> So, after reading Steve's enlightening description, I am with him,
>the
>>> merge is only needed by systemd and seems to be a way of forcing it
>on
>>> everybody, so I am against it.
>>>
>> It would be actually more productive to base this discussion on solid
>> technical arguments.
>
>
>  I am one of those who can't do without initramfs because I mostly run
>GNU/Linux on laptops and for obvious security reasons they all run on
>fully encrypted filesystems, / included.
>
>  However I do loath the / and /usr merge.  I find it irritating that I
>am asked to provide with sound technical reasons to keep the two
>filesystems separated as I needed to justify 4 decades of sound
>sysadminiship practice when it's the
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>The "good reasons to keep things the way they" are have been enumerated
>several times, but I'm happy to list them again:
>
>
>1) complexity and bloat are the key enemies of resiliency;
>
>2) the smaller the most critical OS components are, the more solid the
>whole system is;
>
>3) the smaller / is the easier it is to repair, to secure and audit, to
>provide with alternative boot paths/rescue procedures;
>
>4) merging / with /usr takes away significant degrees of freedom in
>customization and hacking into one's own system and GNU/Linux owes much
>of it's fortune in being a hacker-friendly system that is easy to
>customize, even to the extremes.
>
>
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Hi,

I am against the merge for the same
reasons as above.

Resiliency and modularity are important.

Bye,