On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 20:19:44 +0800 Mark David Dumlao <madum...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'd certainly be happy "fixing" FHS to say that tools for mounting > > and recovering "essential system partitions" be located in /, and > > that these "essential system partitions" contain the tools for > > mounting and recovering non-essential partitions. > > The beef with the comment on /home being nonessential is besides the > point, /usr, /var, or /opt could have been some special case FUSE > filesystem, making it still impossible to predict which files _should_ > be in /. The more relevant matter here is that plan FHS, in > combination with FUSE, makes that difficult. That's not best practice though is it and I completely disagree with the rules you seem to believe the english language has too. It is not a difficult problem, just FUSE is not expected or intended for that, if that changes it is easily fixed immediately by the admin or by the packager preferably in concert with some root management body or project. Many/All of these issues that have come up are actually of 0 effect, we are not talking about preventing users from merging them as most Linux users do because they just hit ok ok ok in ubuntus installation but about a major degradation due to some devs whim and without I might add proper community involvement or commentry ALLOWED. One things for sure real problems will arise directly due to this merge if this merge becomes standard and possibly with won't fixes used leading to pointlessly breaking existing servers and linux becoming even more of an unorganised mess. On windows production machines I arrived at putting c: on it's own smaller partition and program files on a larger partition. It meant I could have many more c: backups and restore much more quickly too resulting in much higher uptime and reduced loss in the cases that registry restore wasn't good enough and system restore is crap. With windows 7 it's not so beneficial as windows 7 is huge but still useful as everything is getting huge on windows these days. You do get the occasional dumb program perhaps fixable with a drive link within c:. Windows 8 should be more reliable but I expect brings new issues in this area due to app restrictions and where sandboxing could have been used for security instead.
