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[Peter Jones]

On 10/19/2010 11:28 AM, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> said:
>> Because it takes more engineering effort to keep it as a separate 
>> partition, as evidenced by the number of bugs that keep appearing that 
>> are only triggered by this niche usecase.
> 
> And how many of those bugs are exclusively a /usr-is-separate problem
> vs. how many of them are didn't-anticipate-alternate-partitioning
> problems?

If I understand your distinction correctly, then the overwhelming majority
of them are the former.

> I don't understand how separate /usr can be the sole trigger for all
> these many bugs. The only type of bug I can see attributed only to
> separate /usr are bootup requiring things in /usr before non-root 
> filesystems are mounted.

And that's exactly what gets hit over and over.

> I expect other bugs attributed to separate /usr are really problems
> handling non-default partitioning schemes of many kinds.

There aren't a lot of other bugs about it.

-- 
        Peter

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