Re: [PATCH 2/2] hid2hci: when recovering from S3 use parent devpath

["Karl O. Pinc" <kop@meme.com>]

On 08/06/2009 08:47:10 PM, Kay Sievers wrote:
> Honestly the entire split of / and /usr, like we usually do, is just
> plain stupid in the first place. It might be ok if we would put the
> desktop stuff in /usr, but spreading random commandline tools and
> libraries around causes nothing but trouble for no good reason.

Theory says that /usr can be mounted read-only, which could
improve system security for those binaries that live there
or have other advantages regarding media used, storage sharing, etc.
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#THEUSRHIERARCHY

The other side of the argument is that / is supposed to be
able to be kept small.
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#THEROOTFILESYSTEM

As storage gets increasingly cheaper relative
to the rest of the hardware it seems most of the
arguments for a separate /usr get weaker, but not all.
I suppose if you have a compelling argument for re-balancing
what goes where you could convince the folks on
freestandards-fhs-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net.
(At least that's where such talk went last I paid attention.)

Regards,

Karl <kop@meme.com>
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