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Re: Solving the syslogd problem



Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 11:33:22AM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 09:21:23PM +0000, Roy Marples wrote:
> > > To fix this, I suggest that we split syslogd into syslogd and syslogd-network.
> > 
> > We could also do a much simpler and more radical decision and stop
> > splitting / and /usr. Of all the partitioning choices available, it
> > truely seems to be a pointless legacy from extremely constrained
> > hardware with a significant cost to maintain.
> 
> This is elegant and I would like to see it.  Just remove /usr entirely and
> collapse its contents into / - no /usr/bin, no /usr/lib, etc.

I like it when fsck doesn't take ages to check /. With bigger /,
it's going to be problematic.

-- 
Alex


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