Cristian RodrC-guez wrote:
On 24/11/11 22:37, Carlos E. R. wrote:
How will this affect me?
As AJ previously said, since 12.1 /usr is mounted very early by the initial ram disk, this change will only get rid of the artificial separation of tools between /bin /sbin ... and /usr
The whole purpose of having /bin and /sbin, was to have a set of tools that 1) were statically linked, 2) could run in a low-resource/low OS-functionality state 3) Allow for some minimal set of files to be load in order to bring up a shell so any problems in booting could be resolved. (don't think all of the above are true anymore...but...) ^^^^ (I've used that when my /usr partition went belly up. Was able to restore it and continue...)... without out it... Would have had to find a DVD to boot from -- hope it was readable (they decay as do the drives)... Eh...not very often this stuff happens... But... I have a small /root and separate /boot partition so they check and load quickly and don't require frequent writes. So their state is fairly steady. I.e. if I pull the plug, they are the MOST likely partitions to come up w/o any problems. /usr is pretty high up in terms of reliability, it's just alot bigger. I've even split sections like off and put them on other disks. like /usr/share, of '/usr', '/usr/share' is 55% of the space. ... Is /usr/share being separate from /usr going to be another problem (besides /usr being separate from /)? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org