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

[William Park]

>> >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).


Maybe it's heading that way.  If that's the case, then I'm well ahead of
curve.  My / is one big RAID5.  And, I boot from 256MB USB stick which 

only has LILO, kernel, and initrd.
-- 

William

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