the "separate /usr" subthread

[Howard Howell]

On Tue, 2014-03-25 at 07:13 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 08:19:52PM +0100, lee wrote:
> > >> /usr belongs on it`s own partition.  
> > > As if no one has ever said that before, and as if it convinced even one thinking person to change their mind. 
> > Thinking persons do not need to change their minds about it because they
> > realise that being able to have /usr on it`s own partition is a good
> > thing.
> 
> It's important to realize that you *can* have a separate /usr -- it just
> really needs to be available at boot time. That means you can have
> separate mount options, filesystems, partition constraints, or whatever. It
> just doesn't work anymore to have it on a network share or (if anyone ever
> did this!) removable media added after initial boot.
> 
> I used the network share case in the mid 1990s, when we were trying to cram
> Irix 6 onto 800MB workstation drives. These days, that's not really an
> issue. (And, hey, you can fit minimal Fedora in that space!) It might be
> neat for some special cases, but I hope we can all agree that it *is* a
> special case (and that Fedora isn't necessarily the right thing to cover all
> special cases).
> 
> 
> -- 
> Matthew Miller    --   Fedora Project    --    <mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
But in the modern business environment, users log in from multiple
places.  How does that work if the user directory is local?