On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:59 AM, Rahul Sundaram <methe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 03/10/2011 10:02 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: > > I just noticed that ever since Fedora 11 the Installation Guide > > recommends against having a /usr partition separate from the root file > > system (though as recently as Fedora 12 the Example Usage still showed a > > separate /usr). I've always used a separate /usr kept mounted read-only > > except when necessary for updates. I was wondering just what sort of > > "boot process becomes more complex" issues I've been fortunate enough to > > avoid, and whether the reasons for that recommendation have become > > stronger in more recent releases. > > Some of the reasons are outlined in > > http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken > > Of course, the typical response is argue that, this shouldn't be the > case but that is at this point just wishful thinking. > Only wishful if people are unwilling to reconsider past actions and are unwilling to consider the necessary changes. The cause appears lost in Fedora/RedHat only because 1 or 2 "large voices" seem to consider this a "religious" fight and will not consider doing anything to fix it. The attitude that the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard is outmoded and unnecessary and that modern hardware doesn't need to keep things on separate spindles or take space considerations into account anymore belongs to these "large voices" in this realm and therefore it cannot be fixed. In actuality, only a few pieces need to be moved, but instead major surgery was applied to move the whole of /usr into / instead of applying a band aid and move a few small pieces around.
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