On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 16:28:54 +0200 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chith...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Samuli Suominen schrieb: > > > > Someone mentioned NFS mount on /usr. Do we have other reasons? How > > many users that might be? > > If you have / encrypted, then you can leave /usr unencrypted as it > contains no secrets. That's doing things upside-down. You should encrypt the data needing encryption, not the other way. This usually means /home which is separate more often than /usr. > Also /usr can remain mounted read-only most of the time, so there is > a reduced chance of accidental corruption. I don't know the number of > users who might want this, and I imagine it is difficult to count > them. Is this actually possible now? Last time I tried doing things like this X11 failed to set keyboard mappings trying to store compiled ones in /usr. > > I dislike the idea of moving libglib-2.0, libdbus-1, > > libdbus-glib-1, and couple of dozen more libs to / > > If you say that /usr must be on the same filesystem as /, then there > is no real reason to not just make a symlink /usr -> . That's a joke, right? -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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