From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-06-12T15:41:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Rubyx (provisionally named) linux distro. Made by and run by Ruby

On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 11:18:42AM +0900, Jason Creighton wrote:
> Let me confirm this: By "collasped the /, /usr, /usr/local directories", there is no /usr directory in RubyX? It's all in /?

Just to add: there are concrete reasons for having / and /usr separate which
are nothing to do with disks being historically expensive or unreliable.

I want to be able to boot my system with the vast majority of it (/usr)
unmounted - this lets me fsck /usr independently.

If / contains only config files and the most essential system binaries, then
there are more cases when I can boot the system and fix problems with other
filesystems. Furthermore, / is unlikely to be written very often, which
means it is less likely to become corrupted. (This assumes you keep /tmp as
a separate directory :-)

Regards,

Brian.