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Re: udev and /usr



On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 04:26:08AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Sep 01, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:
> > You are drawing an artificial distinction between /usr and /var which is not
> > consistent with the standard, nor with how I've been laying out my
> > filesystems for years.  I'm not going to refactor my disk layout on upgrade
> But it is consistent with what upstream (i.e., other distributions)
> wants to support.

I have ~600 Machines in the field - all with /usr on a seperate fs - If Debian
is going to make seperate /usr a no-go its about 300000 Euros worth
of field Engineer time - swapping disks.

/usr was on seperate filesystems for decades and some 3733t broken by design
Desktop utility turns around old Unix paradigms? I dont get it ...

Flo
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