Ruediger Meier said the following on 08/09/2012 09:08 AM:
If one prefers to backup whole file systems rather than dealing with directory trees and complicated/dangerous in/exclude rules then it might help to keep it small by separating /usr. Another point would be if you share /usr read-only across many machines then you have to backup only one /usr.
We can take this a bit further. There's a lot under /usr that is protected. If you are using thin clients, LXE boot, and just about everything lives on the server, or perhaps the Windows/SAMBA equivalent (Hi Lynn) then its even possible that the NFS source isn't all on the same machine! We can clearly identify thing like /usr/share which seem to have been designed to be shared in this way. Logically at least even non-think machines can share that resource. There may be development libraries which it is easier to keep updated at a single point: /usr/lib/ruby, or if you are obsessive many of the library directories under /usr/lib. There may also be shared resources like corporate cryptographic keys. There are many good reasons to partition your data. Its why I'm very dubious about BtrFS. -- The price of liberty is eternal vigilance. --Thomas Jefferson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org