On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Samuli Suominen <ssuomi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Someone mentioned NFS mount on /usr. Do we have other reasons? How > many users that might be? > > I dislike the documentation not being clear on separate /usr, that it > should only be used if you *really* need it due to the potential problems
Well, I ended up that way from following the official documentation the better part of a decade ago: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml Sure, I guess I could try to move root to the lvm as well to expand it enough and switch over to genkernel. You know, maybe a way around all of this would be for all of the various distros and major FOSS packages to get together and come up with some kind of standard for what goes in what directory. Maybe we could call it something like the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard." Then we don't have to argue on mailing lists about whether it is appropriate to rely on file in /usr during boot. It seems like the proper solution is for all packages in the tree to be FHS-compliant, either because we patched them and bug upstream about it, or because we exclude them. That said, there is little point if we're the only distro doing this. How many packages are we actually talking about? Is there any kind of consensus in the FOSS community beyond Gentoo that FHS has had its day? What is the policy for other distros? Rich
