NetworkworkManger and network based filesystem /usr

[Peter Jones]

Jeff Law wrote:
> Bill Nottingham wrote:
>> Hans de Goede (j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl) said:  
>>> But there is a catch, hal and NetworkManager are currently under /usr 
>>> which could be on a network based fs itself. So hal and 
>>> NetworkManager will need to be moved to /bin and /lib[64], or 
>>> alternatively we could declare that installations where /usr is on a 
>>> different fs then / are not supported (which might be a good thing 
>>> todo for F-10 and then move hal + NM for F-11).
>>>     
>>
>> Having network /usr and non-network  / isn't really practical long term.
>> I'm all for not supporting it.
>>   
> It  must die die die.  We're far better off making root filesystems 
> sharable and readonly.

I'm not necessarily against stopping supporting this, but it does mean that 
upgrading won't work on some systems.  And it means that "yum upgrading" will 
fail /catastrophically/ on those machines.

-- 
         Peter

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