On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 03:35:19PM -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > > I read that page. I understand the problem. I'm not convinced.
> I can respect that. I can only then say that we must agree to > disagree, because I also understand the problem, and I am convinced. > But what you guys don't seem to realize is that /lib and /bin and > /sbin was the original hack: everything really should go into /usr, > because now (with an initramfs) we can do what we were not able 30 > years ago. We not need anything in /, really. They could have put everything on /usr 30 years ago, if they'd have seen fit. They saw then good reason not to. What you and KS seem oblivious to is the reason for /bin, /sbin. It is to allow a small boot so as to permit system maintenance - fsck, resizing or moving partions, even undeleting files - all these things are difficult, or even impossible perhaps, if the pertinent partition is mounted. To pretend otherwise is disingenuous. > Regards. > -- > Canek Peláez Valdés > Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación > Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
