[fhs-discuss] static sharable files

[Karl Goetz]

On Tue, 10 May 2011 23:10:44 +0200
Bruno Cornec <Bruno.Cornec at hp.com> wrote:

> Karl Goetz said on Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:47:25AM +1000:
> 
> > > But all of the existing issues identified by having the separation
> > > fail to address an even bigger issue: sharing /usr is entirely
> > > incompatible with a modern package manager, and this has always
> > > been the case.  See:
> > > 
> > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/01/msg00152.html
> > 
> > Thanks for the references. Re-reading the posts I realise i'd
> > already read them and it was good to be reminded about them.
> > Given these (4) links and related discussion I can't think of any
> > reason to keep /usr/ separate other then any issues embedded people
> > might have with them merged. If it won't cause issues for embedded
> > dev then I'd say we should merge /usr into / too.
> 
> I'm systematically separating /usr (and /var for what matters) on a
> dedicated partition. Could be for the LVM non-LVM reason, the
> difference of FS types, and having a FS which can be filled without
> putting at risk the rest of the system, or broken separately.

Separating out /var makes sense, its all changing data.

> Maybe old Unix habits, showing my age, but I never regretted to have
> done so on the systems I'm managing.

On my current system i went the other way about a month ago and
merged /usr into / after running out of space on / (thanks to multiple
kernels in /boot OODing me).

> I still think it's too early to decide to merge / and /usr in a
> standard such as the FHS.

Too early to remove /usr entirely, or too early to require it is part
of / (root) partition?
thanks,
kk

-- 
Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS)
Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer
http://www.kgoetz.id.au
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