Re: usrmerge -- plan B?
On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 09:29:50AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 03:08:09PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> > I disagree both that simple testing (that you could do with a KVM
> > snapshot as well) would be hard and I disagree that the benefits of
> > merged-/usr would be minor.
>
> Nobody has thus far pointed out a single benefit to someone merging usr on
> an ordinary system.
Nor for clusters, for that matter. I don't get how having the /usr part of
the filesystem (no /var, /lib, /etc, etc) would help -- and there's so many
tools that don't care about individual directories that I'd recommend you
to instead use one of:
* btrfs
* overlayfs
* zfs
* lvm
* dm_*
* even a bunch of mounts
rather than your scheme that requires the rest of the world to adapt to it.
Meow!
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