On 04/14/2011 02:01 PM, Vaclav Mocek wrote:
On 03/10/2011 05:08 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> Kam Leo wrote:
>> It probably has less to do with the boot process and more with disto
>> upgrading; i.e. less likely that user files get clobbered if /usr is
>> separate.
> Nope. It has everything to do with booting. Some packages in /bin
> depended on libs in /usr/lib{64} so calling the init script before /usr
> is mounted would fail. There's a discussion about this in the devel list
> if you search the history for it.
I thought that programs in /bin and /sbin are not dynamically linked ....
Nope - That's an urban legend.
Programs below /bin and /sbin are supposed not to access anything below
/usr (e.g. be dynamically linked to anything below /usr/lib), c.f.:
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#BINESSENTIALUSERCOMMANDBINARIES
and
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#SBINSYSTEMBINARIES
Ralf