On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 07:27 +1300, Kent Fredric wrote: > 2012/1/5 Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> > > > > >>>>> On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Michał Górny wrote: > >> > > There's really nothing pointless or blurry about this separation. > > The FHS has a nice definition: "The contents of the root filesystem > > must be adequate to boot, restore, recover, and/or repair the system." > > > > Given that these tools are being moved to /usr and/or duplicated to in > initrd , what is the point of a root filesystem anyway now? Just to > mount other things on? Just to store /etc ? > > Or will /etc move to /usr too? > > /usr/etc somewhat horrifies me.
No no no, the idea is that once all binaries are in /usr, you can easily share /usr between different systems and do updates in a sane way.. You can also mount /usr read-only, but still have / be read-write. -- Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo.org Gentoo Developer
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part
