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Heh. The OS landscape has changed over time, as disks have gotten much faster and much larger, and some of the design decisions made decades ago no longer make

• dredmorbius 15y ago
  It's fair to say that some of the specific design constraints no longer apply. However, that's not to say that we haven't arrived at similar conclusions (a root filesystem accessible at boot, multiply hierarchies of additional storage under, say, /usr, /usr/local, etc. I mean, the ultimate conclusion of the UsrMerge argument would be to put all directories on root. I find the justifications for UsrMerge to be specious at best, and better described as counterfactual. I strongly suspect that a large part of the reasoning is Red Hat's chronic inability to enforce discipline among its software packagers (both within and outside of Red Hat).
  • koenigdavidmj 15y ago
    Fedora put everything in /usr so that if you are sharing it, you can NFS mount just one directory instead of several.
    • dredmorbius 15y ago
      There are multiple ways to do this. UsrMerge still isn't required.