Robin H. Johnson wrote:
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 03:47:18PM -0500, Dale wrote:
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:49:38AM -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
I am concerned about /var being included in this because of the
potential of filling up the root partition.
Err, I don't follow. How does mounting /var fill up the root partition?
If you take /var off its own partition and put it on /, then it will
fill up / instead of /var. Filling up /var, not the end of the world.
Filling up / is a bad thing.
[snip]
That is clear, but entirely irrelevant to my question. I _explicitly_
support /var on a partition, that's why my entire initramfs proposal
included it.
I want to know what William had _against_ the mounting /var in my
proposal, because that is what his statement implied.
For the record, I think /usr should work on a separate partition as
well. One reason, I would like to use LVM on all but my / file system.
This is something I been fiddling with for a while. Thing is, if /usr
has to be on / then there is no point in me using LVM at all. I don't
want / on a LVM because that requires some sort of init* to work. That
is what I am trying to avoid.
My opinion, this is going to lead to one heck of a mess. If it is
coming from upstream, which it appears to be, then there needs to be
someone to point the finger at. I read somewhere it is because of
Fedora so that helps some. It's still going to be a mess. My gut sees
it coming. I can already see where it is going to alter my plans hugely
and I'm a desktop user. I can't imagine a server or some complicated
setup. That is the ones I feel sorry for the most. If they are not
using some init* thing already, they appear to be needing one soon.
It's just one more thing to have to deal with and worry about breaking.
Just my $0.02 worth and that ain't much. ;-)
Dale
:-) :-)
