[fhs-discuss] static sharable files

Harald Hoyer harald.hoyer at gmail.com
Wed May 18 01:03:08 PDT 2011


Am 17.05.2011 21:50, schrieb Tollef Fog Heen:
> ]] Steve Langasek 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> (it's great to see somebody setting Mail-Followup-To so gnus just sends
> mail to the right address!)
> 
> | Pulseaudio works just fine on Ubuntu with /usr.  If you can point to an
> | actual problem with this configuration, let me know and I'll be happy to fix
> | it (and forward the changes to Debian - but presumably not to upstream,
> | since it's a distribution issue rather than an upstream one).
> 
> The point is: I don't care whether it works with a separate /usr or not,
> and my response would to it doesn't work with a separate /usr» would be:
> «file bugs or just go the path of least resistance: put /usr on /».  I
> know which of those I'd do.  You care about being able to put /usr on a
> separate file system, so you get to do the leg work of actually testing
> and making sure it works.

I would rather put / on /usr and leave / to the initramfs :-)

So the distribution lives in /usr, host specific configuration lives in /etc,
host data lives in /var, etc...


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