On Thu, 05 Oct 2017, 15:47:39 +0200, Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar wrote:
On Thu, 2017-10-05 at 15:42 +0200, Manfred Hollstein wrote:
I look at this topic from a completely different angle (though it might be related to the view of btrfs maintainers/users caring for how the file system is structured): I always put /var on a separate partition, nowadays living on a rotating disk (actually two disks combined into one raid1) to ensure the ssd hosting the root file system doesn't get written to too frequently. While I can bind-mount any directory from /usr to the rotating disk, I agree with other posters that /usr doesn't sound right. I admit this doesn't help at all with the snapshot/rollback issue, though. Nevertheless, I thought this point of view might help with the whole discussion, too.
I don't understand you argument here: you will write the rpmdb about as often as you write other stuff to /usr anyway, as this happens when you install/update/remove packages... hence having it in /usr does not cause really a higher write load to your ssd
what exactly did you try to convey?
_avoiding the traffic to rpmdb_?!?
Cheers Dominique
Cheers. l8er manfred