Further history of Unix of /usr
Further history of Unix of /usr
Posted Jan 12, 2016 4:32 UTC (Tue) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239)In reply to: Further history of Unix of /usr by giraffedata
Parent article: Preparing for a merged /usr in Debian
It's how all of our users run, and that's a pretty large number.
Posted Jan 13, 2016 3:55 UTC (Wed)
by giraffedata (guest, #1954)
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Are you talking about a network filesystem? Because "the network" is not a storage medium, so that's confusing.
Posted Jan 13, 2016 4:00 UTC (Wed)
by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239)
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No. /usr is backed by dm-verity, so from the filesystem perspective it's a read-only block device.
Further history of Unix of /usr
I think a system that has all the system executables on a read-only medium, without having the root filesystem on that same medium must be pretty rare.
It's how all of our users run, and that's a pretty large number.
Further history of Unix of /usr