On Wednesday, February 01, 2012 09:40:08 AM, Eric Myers wrote: > On Tue, 31 Jan 2012, Chris Knadle wrote: > > Last month at the MHVLUG meeting I was asking a couple of people about > > whether they knew about the current movement by Red Hat/Fedora to > > consolidate binary > > > > directories as follows: > > /bin -> /usr/bin > > /sbin -> /usr/sbin > > /lib -> /usr/lib > > /lib64 -> /usr/lib64 > > I don't know if it still holds, but one reason to have /bin and /usr/bin > separate is that you can then boot to to single user with / mounted > and use stuff in /bin but not have to mount or use /usr/bin stuff. > > (Which is why I know some vi, to use /bin/vi because emacs is in > /usr/bin :-) > > What advantages are they suggesting come from merging /bin into /usr/bin?
Some of the supposed advantages are enumerated here: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge The disadvantages are breaking systems that have a separate /usr partition and which don't use a kernel initrd or initramfs image. Most systems today boot using an initrd or initramfs image in order to mount filesystems by their UUID (or filesystem LABEL) rather than a hard-coded device name. So this proposed change mainly may cause issues with either specialized servers or certain embedded machines that have separate / and /usr partitions for some reason. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College Feb 1 - Home Networking Made Simple with Amahi Home Server Mar 7 - Desktop Shootout - 9th Anniversary of MHVLUG Apr 4 - An Intro to Chef
