On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 09:29:50AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 03:08:09PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > I disagree both that simple testing (that you could do with a KVM > > snapshot as well) would be hard and I disagree that the benefits of > > merged-/usr would be minor. > > Nobody has thus far pointed out a single benefit to someone merging usr on > an ordinary system.
Nor for clusters, for that matter. I don't get how having the /usr part of the filesystem (no /var, /lib, /etc, etc) would help -- and there's so many tools that don't care about individual directories that I'd recommend you to instead use one of: * btrfs * overlayfs * zfs * lvm * dm_* * even a bunch of mounts rather than your scheme that requires the rest of the world to adapt to it. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ We domesticated dogs 36000 years ago; together we chased ⣾⠁⢰⠒⠀⣿⡁ animals, hung out and licked or scratched our private parts. ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ Cats domesticated us 9500 years ago, and immediately we got ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ agriculture, towns then cities. -- whitroth on /.
