On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:49:10PM -0400, Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:
On 06/20/2011 10:41 AM, Dr. Werner Fink pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
WHY? You don't need /usr on a separate partition anymore.
I'm aware that a separate /usr is only optional. Personal I do not use a separate /usr partition. Nevertheless I know customers using such /usr partition to minimize downtime due e.g. file system problems.
Wouldn't it be better to fix the real problem instead?
Hmmm ... one real solution would be that udevd would delay request for tools located below /usr (like some tools for alsam blutooth and other tools which are excuted before /usr is mounted) id not mounted. Also zypper could check if a directory touched by an rpm is located on a ro mounted partition to temporary remount this partition rw. The first approach would avoid the problems which Kay may has seen as udev maintainer in his bug reports I guess. The second approach would also support a ro mounted root file system with some mount points for the remaining rw data.
Hmmm, I'm not speaking about my personal system setup. On my own privat system I've /, /var, /tmp, /boot, and /home on different partitions, that is / and /boot on a 64G SSD and the rest on a 1TB SATA III.
The only directories I see as being beneficial on a separate partition are the "tmp" directories which can fill a drive rather quickly if not watched.
Again, this is also you're personal setup just as my personal setup ... but IMHO we should like not to ignore other setups.
No, this is my personal opinion not how my system is setup.
I only ever use three partitions /(xfs), /boot(ext2) and swap.
I also use ext2 for /boot and xfs for all other partitions. Nevertheless I prefer partitions with higher I/O load be located on a harddisk and the more static data (/ including /usr) to be located on the SSD. Indeed booting with SSD is extrem fast even with old SystemV init ;) Werner -- "Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a swimming pool." -- Edward Burr -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org