On 10/19/2010 11:15 AM, seth vidal wrote:
On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 16:08 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:03:50AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
>> On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 15:56 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>>
>>>> /usr is frequently given different mount options (like noatime, for
>>>> example) or mounted readonly to prevent unnecessary writes to the
>>>> system.
>>>
>>> That doesn't require it to be a separate partition.
>>
>> Mounting the location meaningfully as a readonly does. If you're doing
>> it for security reasons.
>
> It doesn't. You can make it a read-only bind mount.
If the files are still read-write at another location then something
iterating over disks/locations can still find it.
That's what I meant by meaningfully.
And it's entirely wrong, Seth. They're not at another location in this
example.
>> So it seems like you need to explain why you think /usr
should NOT be on
>> a separate partition.
>
> Because it adds additional complexity for no obvious gain.
that's not plausible enough, imo. There is clear gain to enough users to
file a 'number of bugs'.
Presumably because they don't know about the other ways to accomplish the
same goal that aren't as painful to support?
--
Peter