Getting rid of /usr for F12?
Chris Adams
cmadams at hiwaay.net
Fri Apr 17 12:52:26 UTC 2009
Once upon a time, Lennart Poettering <mzerqung at 0pointer.de> said:
> In the past more and more stuff has been moved from /usr to /.
Only things needed for boot have been moved to /.
> And for the folks who think /usr is awesome because it allows mounting
> /usr ro while mounting / rw: it's not.
You're wrong. On my servers, I make a small / and bigger /usr (mounted
ro). The small / has a big advantage: less likely to fail.
Real-world example: I recently had a drive failure (actually multiple
drive failure in a RAID), and /usr was corrupted beyond repair. I was
still able to boot in "emergency" mode, mounting only /, and restore
/usr from tape.
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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
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