[Gllug] To partition or not to partition

Richard Jones rich at annexia.org
Wed Oct 20 22:14:26 UTC 2010


On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 03:37:03PM +0100, - Tethys wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org> wrote:
> 
> > To be fair, the claim is that it doesn't really work at the moment
> > (too many dependencies on /usr from early init programs)
> 
> See my previous claim that Fedora is headed towards an OS that caters
> for the common usage patterns at the expense of those that do things
> slightly differently. It really does work at the moment, and has done
> since the inception of Fedora. It only doesn't work for things that I
> don't use, and don't want to use. But that's deemed sufficient reason
> to prevent me from running the system the way I want (and have always
> done).
> 
> > you can easily get the benefits of read-only-/usr using the bind-mount
> > commands mentioned in that thread.  I don't have any opinion on
> > whether either of those is true.
> 
> Partially. I can't seem to get read-only bind mounts working from
> fstab. If I explicitly invoke mount with the appropriate options
> from the command line it works. If I do it through fstab, it claims
> it "seems to be mounted read-write". Well yes. It is. That's what
> I'm trying to change, which is why I specified "ro" in the fstab.

I guess the answer to both is to join the discussion and influence
people on Fedora devel list.

Rich.

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