On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
On 10/19/2010 11:25 AM, seth vidal wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 16:22 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>>>
>>> Hmm, So when this was broken a lot of bugs were triggered?
>>>
>>> Sure seems like if a lot of bugs are being triggered then it is NOT a
>>> niche usecase.
>>>
>>> You can't have it both ways.
>>
>> Very few people do it. When they do, lots of things break. It's kind of
>> like trying to run Fedora under the NetBSD Linux emulation. Nobody does
>> it, but if they did they'd find that a surprising quantity of code
>> wouldn't work.
>
> you keep asserting this claim - and yet all the evidence in terms of
> concerned users comes to the contrary.
>
> Can you document or backup your assertion?
This seems like a question smolt should be able to answer...
This is what is currently in the wild for /usr:
mysql> select mnt_pnt,count(*) as cnt from file_systems where mnt_pnt like
'/usr%' group by mnt_pnt order by cnt;
+-------------------+-------+
| mnt_pnt | cnt |
+-------------------+-------+
| /usr/share/dict | 1 |
| /usr/src/debug | 1 |
| /usr/tmp | 1 |
| /usr/share/icons | 1 |
| /usr/local/sbin | 1 |
| /usr/sbin | 2 |
| /usr/include | 2 |
| /usr/src/packages | 3 |
| /usr/local/bin | 5 |
| /usr/X11R6 | 6 |
| /usr/local/share | 9 |
| /usr/bin | 11 |
| /usr/share/doc | 14 |
| /usr/games | 16 |
| /usr/lib64 | 30 |
| /usr/local/src | 33 |
| /usr/lib | 41 |
| /usr/local/games | 43 |
| /usr/share | 163 |
| /usr/src | 329 |
| /usr/local | 12814 |
| /usr | 37171 |
+-------------------+-------+
22 rows in set (3.25 sec)
This is out of 1,702,459 submissions of profiles that included filesystem
data. So about 3% of users have something mounted in /usr and about 2.2%
have /usr mounted directly.
-Mike