On 10/19/2010 11:28 AM, Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, Matthew Garrett <mjg59(a)srcf.ucam.org> said:
> Because it takes more engineering effort to keep it as a separate
> partition, as evidenced by the number of bugs that keep appearing that
> are only triggered by this niche usecase.
And how many of those bugs are exclusively a /usr-is-separate problem
vs. how many of them are didn't-anticipate-alternate-partitioning
problems?
If I understand your distinction correctly, then the overwhelming majority
of them are the former.
I don't understand how separate /usr can be the sole trigger for
all
these many bugs. The only type of bug I can see attributed only to
separate /usr are bootup requiring things in /usr before non-root
filesystems are mounted.
And that's exactly what gets hit over and over.
I expect other bugs attributed to separate /usr are really problems
handling non-default partitioning schemes of many kinds.
There aren't a lot of other bugs about it.
--
Peter
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987
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