Re: Solving the syslogd problem

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 11:50:47AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Piotr Meyer <aniou%smutek.pl@localhost> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 09:32:30PM +0000, Alexander Nasonov wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> >> I like it when fsck doesn't take ages to check /. With bigger /,
> >> it's going to be problematic.
> >
> > IMVHO moving /usr/bin, /usr/sbin and /usr/lib to / is reasonable,
> > and it will not lead to excessive growth of / - but /usr should
> > remain as separated mountpoint, convenient place for extra storage
> > needed for src/, xsrc/, pkgsrc/, share/, X11R7/, local/, pkg/ and
> > - in some cases - home/ directories.
> 
> I think this is the crux of it.  People put things in /usr, like
> /usr/pkg, and it is normal that /usr be large.

Please don't mix "provide all libraries and core programs in a single
filesystem" with "/usr/pkg and /usr are on the filesystem". I didn't say
anything about the later and there are reasons for wanting to do that
are completely different.

Joerg