Comment # 14 on bug 1186781 from Ludwig Nussel

(In reply to Usr Merge from comment #4)
> While waiting patiently for reply by any openSUSE developer, I did some
> research and found that the package filesystem[1] executes
> /usr/libexec/convertfs, which can be found in the package
> compat-usrmerge[2]. This script checks if /usr is a mount point and if not,
> defines a flag CP_HARDLINK="-l" for cp, which creates hard links instead of
> copying files. However, when making a copy of /bin, the script executes 'cp
> -ax -l', not 'cp -ax $CP_HARDLINK' as I would expect.

Yes, that is the bug. Not sure how it slipped though as I orginally tested the
split /usr setup. Sorry for that :-(