W dniu 30.07.2011 15:55, Samuli Suominen pisze:
> On 07/30/2011 01:46 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
>> On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 10:27:27 +0300
>> Samuli Suominen <ssuomi...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>> Since running separate /usr without mounting it from initramfs on top
>>> of / before init is and has been broken with udev for a long time
>>> now[1][2][3]
>>>
>>> [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364235
>>> [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove#Move_all_to_.2Fusr
>>> [3]
>>> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken
>>>
>>> Can we warn users about not doing the separate /usr mistake in the
>>> handbook?
>>
>> It's important to consider the timeline here. Separate /usr was
>> accidentally broken by a sudden increase in dependencies from base
>> system packages to desktopy things. It was only later that certain
>> people decided that "oh, separate /usr is a bad idea anyway", and they
>> did so because they couldn't figure out how to fix the mess they'd
>> caused. This is very much a case of carelessly letting the horse escape
>> and then trying to convince everyone that no-one needs a horse anyway...
>>
> 
> Someone mentioned NFS mount on /usr.  Do we have other reasons?  How
> many users that might be?

That covers headless/diskless clusters and I suspect many people still
do that.
Cheers,
Kacper


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