/usrmove and path ordering

[Simo Sorce]

On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 13:22 +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Reindl Harald wrote:
> > Am 15.02.2012 13:43, schrieb Martin Langhoff:
> >> On Feb 15, 2012 6:16 AM, "Reindl Harald" <h.reindl at thelounge.net
> >> <mailto:h.reindl at thelounge.net>> wrote:
> >>> there is no single reason for a feature like /usrmove which
> >>> in fact nobody NEEDS at all and definitly not now to press
> >>> it into the next release with pressure
> >>
> >> You are wrong. The /usr move has a very clear impact in being able
> >> to snapshot your OS install partition. Add
> >> btrfs, yum hooks and the already-implemented "stateless"
> >> configuration and you have a really major feature: a fully
> >> upgrade/test/rollback setup for Fedora.
> >
> > only one out of a million installations have /usr seperated
> > from / and the default is NOT do this - so no there is no
> > impact on any normal setup
> 
> Prior to F17, I've always put /usr on a partition separate from /.
> 
>     $ df -hT / /usr
>     Filesystem     Type  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>     /dev/sda4      ext4   11G  7.3G  3.2G  70% /
>     /dev/sda6      ext4   10G  7.3G  2.3G  77% /usr
> 
> I know I'm special ;-), but *that* special?  I doubt it.

I guess it is time to change habits, what's the point of a separate /usr
these days ?

Simo.

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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York