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separate /usr isn't just about r/o or NFS

separate /usr isn't just about r/o or NFS

Posted Mar 21, 2011 16:08 UTC (Mon) by gvy (guest, #11981)
In reply to: Systemd incompatible with mounted /usr by mezcalero
Parent article: Quotes of the week

Ever got filesystem corruption (doesn't really need rw, a lucky bad block might suffice)?

My recommendation: try to understand why smart people have been doing things that way before, and think about this for a while. And then try to fix the broken attitude of declaring working things useful for others broken only because you are working hard on solving entirely different thing.

The better folks I know do work on corner cases. "Mainstream" like McDonald's usually just don't bother. If Fedora is all about GNOME desktop only (as discussed already) then this attitude fits pretty well, of course.


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separate /usr isn't just about r/o or NFS

Posted Mar 21, 2011 16:32 UTC (Mon) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

If you want to fix the corner cases, you are welcome to. The current issues are no Fedora specific in any way. Your favor distro has it too. As has been pointed out, systemd is merely the messenger.

smells Richard Hughes, btw

Posted Mar 30, 2011 21:00 UTC (Wed) by gvy (guest, #11981) [Link]

> If you want to fix the corner cases, you are welcome to.
Last summer it was a filesystem deadlock. Hope you won't face it now :)

> Your favor distro has it too.
At least not the "udev under /usr" part. The thing is,
- I actually run it with separate /usr and see no problems;
- nothing bothers me about a non-issue for no reason.

> As has been pointed out, systemd is merely the messenger.
It's the messenger which was instructed to, well, lie.

And the instructor seems to have a stance that dumping that all on a user is more sane than going after those who are ignorant enough to introduce that crap in the first place (remember RH#534047?).

Now that's weird. I wouldn't waste time on Mr. Hughes but Lennart is, or at least was for many years (judging as a packager), much different.

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