Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 11:33:22AM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 09:21:23PM +0000, Roy Marples wrote: > > > To fix this, I suggest that we split syslogd into syslogd and > > > syslogd-network. > > > > We could also do a much simpler and more radical decision and stop > > splitting / and /usr. Of all the partitioning choices available, it > > truely seems to be a pointless legacy from extremely constrained > > hardware with a significant cost to maintain. > > This is elegant and I would like to see it. Just remove /usr entirely and > collapse its contents into / - no /usr/bin, no /usr/lib, etc.
I like it when fsck doesn't take ages to check /. With bigger /, it's going to be problematic. -- Alex