Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing [and 3 more messages]
Hi Matthew,
On Sun, 2023-08-27 at 11:30 +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote:
> Any such consideration must be mindful of the fact that the majority of
> Debian installs are now /usr-merged, which means that the complexity of
> unwinding such installs has to be a heavy factor in thinking about
> alternative approaches.
Yes, I think there are many technical challenges required before Debian
would be in a position to adopt the proposed Jackson filesystem layout.
If Debian would choose to adopt it at all (an open question).
Besides conversion, there is also the telemetry service that seems to
be required to safely move to the proposed layout (AFAIK no alternative
to this has been proposed yet). I'm not sure if there is already any
work done on the path by the proposers?
I'm also still missing an overview what the Jackson layout's advantages
over the existing filesystem layout (merged-/usr) or the 2000's layout
is (split-/usr). As far as I can tell it combines the disadvantages of
both with much additional work required to get to it; I don't really
see any advantage so far (besides "our tools can't handle anything
else", but in practice it seems to work fine, and of course avoiding
stuff associated with a certain company which I understand is a goal in
itself for some people)...
I would appreciate a list of technical and ideological reasons why
switching to the Jackson layout is important for Debian.
Ansgar
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