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Why are they going from /bin to /usr/bin instead of /usr/bin to /bin ? I would have thought they could flatten things out.
by flukus 7y ago
Why are they going from /bin to /usr/bin instead of /usr/bin to /bin ? I would have thought they could flatten things out.
- __s 7y agoWeird edge cases where /usr is mounted, such as a read only network drive
- jhanschoo 7y agoA goal of Fedora was to have a "snapshottable" /usr that includes as much as possible (all?) of the generic OS files. That is, multiple machines running the same OS can have a shared /usr, and everything machine-specific in the other dirs. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove#Why_don.E2.80.99t_you_move_all_.2Fusr_contents_to_.2F_and_forget_about_.2Fusr.3F https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove#Why_don.E2.8...
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- 0xfffafaCrash 7y ago> Myth #11: Instead of merging / into /usr it would make a lot more sense to merge /usr into /. > Fact: This would make the separation between vendor-supplied OS resources and machine-specific even worse, thus making OS snapshots and network/container sharing of it much harder and non-atomic, and clutter the root file system with a multitude of new directories. https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge/ https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseFor...