On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:36:23 +0100 Graham Murray <gra...@gmurray.org.uk> wrote:
> Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org> writes: > > > What's the benefit of having /usr on a separate partition anyway? > > The only somewhat reasonable explanation that I've heard is so that > > it can be mounted readonly. > > One benefit, especially in a large server 'farm' is that several > servers can share the same /usr by NFS mounting, read-only, the same > partition on all of the servers. This both ensures that all the > servers are kept in-step and greatly simplifies the upgrade process. Unless upgrade involves files being outside of /usr. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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