Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Wed Feb 1 18:49:14 UTC 2012


On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 01:34:32PM -0500, Glen Strom wrote:
> On 02/01/2012 08:19 AM, James Knott wrote:
> >I found this recently on Groklaw:
> >http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074114.html
> >
> >--
> 
> Fedora wants to merge /usr.
> 
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge

Some of it makes sense.  I think their talk of being able to have
a network mounted /usr is wrong and is actually less possible when
everything moves to /usr.  Where will 'mount' be?  Perhaps they fall in
to the trap of assuming an initrd is always in use (which perhaps for
them it is).

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