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The initramsf case and the embedded system case are good point. Can Computer Science help us decide if some people are right? The measure of Informational ent
by SFJulie 10y ago
The initramsf case and the embedded system case are good point.
Can Computer Science help us decide if some people are right?
The measure of Informational entropy : a state with more compartment as more order, thus more information. By merging /usr you lose information, thus making the one in need losing it, whereas the one without a need for this gain nothing.
I laughed at the comment of philosophy by pitchforks of angry users, and I would claim these pitchforks are the one from the Maxwell Daemons telling us to remember that it is easy to lose information and that increasing entropy is messy.
- tobias12345 10y agoBy splitting / and /usr you create problems for packagers: Where do all the files need to go? Does cryptsetup need to go into /sbin or /use/sbin? Does network code belong into / or /use? Must users will not care, but some might need either of them to set up their file systems. If you pace something into /, then you also need to put all libraries and binaries that needs into /. That will rapidly blue up the size of /. It is also not automatically testable, so distributions will get things wrong (as they repeatedly did before). You could have a script to only put the stuff your system needs into /... Most distributions use such a script for their initrd, which contains everything necessary to check and mount your root file system. So you could just extract that into / and be fine with it:-) Or just use your initrd as that rescue medium.