Re: from / to /usr/: a summary
- To: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>
- Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: from / to /usr/: a summary
- From: Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:59:08 +0100
- Message-id: <[🔎] 87sjjd9knn.fsf@frosties.localnet>
- In-reply-to: <4EF6DB00.9040006@debian.org> (Thomas Goirand's message of "Sun, 25 Dec 2011 16:12:48 +0800")
- References: <20111208191657.GB22934@bongo.bofh.it> <201112212329.24674.russell@coker.com.au> <87fwgc9a7n.fsf@frosties.localnet> <201112222207.21547.russell@coker.com.au> <4EF6DB00.9040006@debian.org>
Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> writes:
> On 12/22/2011 07:07 PM, Russell Coker wrote:
>> It seems to me that wanting to have / outside LVM but /usr inside LVM is a
>> fairly obscure corner case.
> I have about 100 servers setup this way, and my laptops as well. I really
> don't see why this would be a corner case. Please understand that many
> different people have many different configuration, and that in today's
> Debian, *absolutely everything is allowed*, and never, ever, Debian said
> that one type of setup would one day be forbidden.
>
> Taking decisions that some setup are "not supported" would be a bad move
> whatever the partitioning we are talking about. Please don't do that,
> there's no reason why Debian would take such move.
>
> Thomas
The reason for such a setup is, historically, so that you could boot
without initramfs. A small / (including /boot) to boot from and start up
lvm before mounting /usr, /var and /home.
Prior to grub2, which can now boot from LVM directly, this was a verry
sensible setup.
MfG
Goswin
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