Le mardi 19 octobre 2010 à 14:56 +0100, Matthew Garrett a écrit :
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 02:43:33PM +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> This despite the FHS says (right at the top of Chapter 3, the Root
> Filesystem):
>
> /usr, /opt, and /var are designed such that they may be located on other
> partitions or filesystems.
>
> Do we *really* want to head this way, ignoring bugs resulting from
> having /usr on a different partition such as
>
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/#626007, which is what led to this?
What's the benefit in having /usr or /opt as separate filesystems?
When one actually uses /opt, it really wants to be on a separate
filesystem, so you can dump huge (gigs of binaries and other data)
proprietary software there without polluting the (sane) base system
It matters a lot when you have simple backup procedures for the base
system that explode if you accidentally scope Oracle/SAP/IBM bloatware.
Regards,
--
Nicolas Mailhot