Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 19:33:56 -0000 (UTC)
From: chris...@astron.com (Christos Zoulas)
Message-ID: <r0smn4$12qf$1...@ciao.gmane.io>
| Having a split /usr makes little sense today though as joerg mentioned,
| even in the space-constrained systems.
Space constraints may have once been the primary motivation for the
split, but (while sometimes still important ... I was unable to install
FreeBSD on a system I had a while back, as its root filesystem space
requirement exceeded what could be provided on a bootable device) the
more important considerations today are the filesystem attributes.
While it is probably unlikely that anyone much cares about exportable
/usr (or remote mounts it) these days, I certainly care about making it
read only. The filesystem block/frag sizes optimal for / and /usr are
also typically different.
The "one size fits all" method is certainly adequate for some uses, but
it will never result in a solution that works quite as well as the (admittedly
more costly) personally tailored solution.
Please don't do anything that breaks this, at least as an option.
kre
