Re: [gentoo-dev] supporting /usr on separate partition

2011-10-17 Thread Zac Medico
On 10/17/2011 01:01 PM, Sven Vermeulen wrote: > --Snippet from the commit result: > > However, multiple partitions have disadvantages as well. If not configured > properly, you will have a system with lots of free space on one partition > and none on another. Another nuisance is that separ

Re: [gentoo-dev] supporting /usr on separate partition

2011-10-17 Thread Sven Vermeulen
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 01:50:04PM -0400, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > > If someone wants to take on the burden of maintaining an init wrapper > > like that, then I guess that's fine. However, I wouldn't consider it to > > be an absolute requirement. I think it would be fine (maybe preferable) > > to

Re: [gentoo-dev] supporting /usr on separate partition

2011-10-17 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
On 17/10/11 01:55 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 10/17/2011 08:50 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > > please disable HTML in your mail client. > CRAP. sorry all. will stop emailing from my phone.

Re: [gentoo-dev] supporting /usr on separate partition

2011-10-17 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 10/17/2011 08:50 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: please disable HTML in your mail client.

Re: [gentoo-dev] supporting /usr on separate partition

2011-10-17 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
...and recombining again.. On 2011-10-17, at 1:24 PM, Zac Medico wrote: > On 10/17/2011 09:02 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: >> Splitting this up since i'm kind of starting two threads here.. >> >> - Documentation discussion - >> On 16/10/11 02:44 PM, Zac Medico wrote: >>> >>> Well, you'l

Re: [gentoo-dev] supporting /usr on separate partition

2011-10-17 Thread Zac Medico
On 10/17/2011 09:02 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > Splitting this up since i'm kind of starting two threads here.. > > - Documentation discussion - > On 16/10/11 02:44 PM, Zac Medico wrote: >> >> Well, you'll have to define the meaning of "support" in this context. I >> simply said that it

Re: [gentoo-dev] supporting /usr on separate partition

2011-10-17 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
Splitting this up since i'm kind of starting two threads here.. - Documentation discussion - On 16/10/11 02:44 PM, Zac Medico wrote: > > Well, you'll have to define the meaning of "support" in this context. I > simply said that it shouldn't be encouraged, with me reason being that > it te

Re: [gentoo-dev] supporting /usr on separate partition

2011-10-16 Thread Michał Górny
On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:36:23 +0100 Graham Murray wrote: > Zac Medico writes: > > > What's the benefit of having /usr on a separate partition anyway? > > The only somewhat reasonable explanation that I've heard is so that > > it can be mounted readonly. > > One benefit, especially in a large s

Re: [gentoo-dev] supporting /usr on separate partition

2011-10-16 Thread Graham Murray
Zac Medico writes: > What's the benefit of having /usr on a separate partition anyway? The > only somewhat reasonable explanation that I've heard is so that it can > be mounted readonly. One benefit, especially in a large server 'farm' is that several servers can share the same /usr by NFS moun

Re: [gentoo-dev] supporting /usr on separate partition

2011-10-16 Thread Zac Medico
On 10/16/2011 05:52 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > On 15/10/11 06:07 PM, Zac Medico wrote: >> On 10/15/2011 01:57 AM, Wulf C. Krueger wrote: >>> On 15.10.2011 10:42, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: in what way will exherbo deal wih this mess? Are there any plans? >>> >>> We don't support /usr on

Re: [gentoo-dev] supporting /usr on separate partition (was: Suggestion for getting rid of udev)

2011-10-16 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
On 15/10/11 06:07 PM, Zac Medico wrote: > On 10/15/2011 01:57 AM, Wulf C. Krueger wrote: >> On 15.10.2011 10:42, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: >>> in what way will exherbo deal wih this mess? Are there any plans? >> >> We don't support /usr on a separate partition. People can, of course, do >> that