> So, since I have /usr separate from the rest, I could mount it read only > and reduce the chance of corruption if say my UPS failed? I already do > this for /boot. Interesting. Very interesting indeed. > > If the other issues happen, computers is likely the least of our > problems. ;-)
Or if the bulk of the user data is under /usr perhaps with further partitions for even more highly written locations then you can have a more trusted ro root though in fact all the partitions gain. It's not just power failure this covers and less so these days with journaling, (though remember, journaling may not apply to your system such as some embedded). I guess also the system crash term may have been used in the FHS to cover more than just power failure, filesystem bugs (less code used), hardware failure etc.. There are other plus points in the FHS too. A counter point is head movement though that could be improved at the same time due to a reduced fragmentation (I know it's much lower on unix but still applies) depending on a few obvious things and removed with ssd. p.s. I'm 30 in January, so I hope I wouldn't be thought of as an old fart already. Just because I agree with the /bin/grep /usr/bin/grep consolidation but not the data consolidation. -- _______________________________________________________________________ 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface' (Doug McIlroy) _______________________________________________________________________
