On 2018年11月17日 20:57:23 JST, Alessandro Selli <alessandrose...@linux.com> wrote: >On 16/11/18 at 11:43, KatolaZ wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 10:19:30AM +0000, Rowland Penny wrote: >> >> [cut] >> >>> So, after reading Steve's enlightening description, I am with him, >the >>> merge is only needed by systemd and seems to be a way of forcing it >on >>> everybody, so I am against it. >>> >> It would be actually more productive to base this discussion on solid >> technical arguments. > > > I am one of those who can't do without initramfs because I mostly run >GNU/Linux on laptops and for obvious security reasons they all run on >fully encrypted filesystems, / included. > > However I do loath the / and /usr merge. I find it irritating that I >am asked to provide with sound technical reasons to keep the two >filesystems separated as I needed to justify 4 decades of sound >sysadminiship practice when it's the [cut] > >The "good reasons to keep things the way they" are have been enumerated >several times, but I'm happy to list them again: > > >1) complexity and bloat are the key enemies of resiliency; > >2) the smaller the most critical OS components are, the more solid the >whole system is; > >3) the smaller / is the easier it is to repair, to secure and audit, to >provide with alternative boot paths/rescue procedures; > >4) merging / with /usr takes away significant degrees of freedom in >customization and hacking into one's own system and GNU/Linux owes much >of it's fortune in being a hacker-friendly system that is easy to >customize, even to the extremes. > > [cut]
Hi, I am against the merge for the same reasons as above. Resiliency and modularity are important. Bye, _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
