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I'm not sure I fully understand what Lennart means by "/usr merge". Is it assuming all paths under /usr belong to the same mount point, or something else?
by mariusor 5y ago
I'm not sure I fully understand what Lennart means by "/usr merge". Is it assuming all paths under /usr belong to the same mount point, or something else?
- blueflow 5y agoIt means that binaries are in one place, not spread out across /sbin, /bin and /usr. The author is specifically referring to the variant where all binaries are in /usr, but i've seen distros were it was done in other ways.
- perihelions 5y agoHere's additional background, and an HN thread: https://lwn.net/Articles/890219/ https://lwn.net/Articles/890219/ ("Debian still having trouble with merged /usr") https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30929024 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30929024 (288 comments)
- mariusor 5y agoThank you. I thought it was referring to an older issue which I'm not sure if it's been addressed, where systemd had problems booting systems which needed /usr to be mounted at boot time from another partition.