Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> writes: > On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> https://wiki.debian.org/UsrMerge > > Now that we have union mounts in Linux, should we instead do what Ken > Thompson and Dennis Ritchie should have done; install things in / > instead of /usr and use union mounts when there is one small disk > containing some files and a larger disk containing other files?
Moving /bin, /sbin, /lib to /usr has some advantages like being able to mount /usr read-only while keeping /etc read-write. Or sharing /usr between multiple containers and having them only use a different / with different /etc and /var. Moving everything from /usr to / doesn't seem to bring any such advantages? So I don't see why we would want to do so. Ansgar
